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Miranda Fractures, Grooves and Craters
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Caption:
This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken Jan 24, 1986, from a distance of about 31,000 kilometers (19,000 miles), shortly before the spacecraft's closest approach to the Uranian moon. The high resolution of 600 meters (2,000 feet) reveals a bewildering variety of fractures, grooves and craters, as well as features of different albedos (reflectancea). This clear-filter, narrow-angle view encompasses areas of older, heavily cratered terrain with a wide variety of forms. The grooves and troughs reach depths of a few kilometers (or miles) and expose materials of different albedos. The great variety of directions of fractures and troughs, and the different densities of impact craters on them, signify a long, complex geologic evolution of this satellite.
Background Info:
The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Miranda | |
| System | Uranus | |
| Target Type | Satellite | |
| Mission | Voyager | |
| Instrument Host | Cassini Orbiter | Voyager 2 |
| Host Type | Orbiter | Flyby Spacecraft |
| Instrument | Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) | |
| Detector | Narrow Angle Camera | |
| Extra Keywords | Crater, Grayscale, Impact, Visual | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 1996-01-29 | |
| Date in Caption | 1986-01-24 | |
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00140 | |
| Identifier | PIA00140 | |
