PIA01980: Uranus Satellite - Miranda
 Target Name:  Miranda
 Is a satellite of:  Uranus
 Mission:  Voyager
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle
 Product Size:  375 x 223 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P29505
 Addition Date:  1999-06-19
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01980.tif (13.26 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01980.jpg (3.546 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken Jan. 23, 1986, as the spacecraft neared Uranus. This image was acquired from a distance of 1.38 million kilometers (860,000 miles) through the clear filter of Voyager's narrow-angle camera. Miranda is the innermost of the five Uranian satellites known from Earth-based observations. Images from the Jan. 24 closest approach to Miranda should reveal in greater detail the region toward the bottom of this view, where a sinuous bright marking crosses a circular dark area. These features lie between a bright (high-albedo) region at left and a region of average albedo at right. Miranda is about 500 km (300 mi) in diameter; the resolution of this image is about 26 km (16 mi). The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-06-19