The moon Miranda
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Miranda is the smallest and closest moon of Uranus. It was discovered on February 16, 1948 by Gerard Kuiper during observations at the MacDonald Observatory. It was given the name Miranda by Kuiper himself, a name derived from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. It is also known as Uranus V. The closest images taken of it so far were by the Voyager 2 probe, when it succeeded in observing the moon during its flight over Uranus in 1986. The southern part of this moon was studied during the flyby because of its orientation toward the sun.
Miranda's surface is likely mostly water ice. It is a low-density body that contains silicate rocks and organic compounds within it. Miranda's surface contains areas with a geological mixture of broken terrain indicating intense geological activity in the Moon's past, interspersed with huge canyons. There is a racetrack-like grooved structure called a corona, which was formed by faults at the top of the Debray structure or by geysers. It is likely that the valleys form gully faults formed as a result of tectonic expansion. One of the important landmarks was created by the cold volcano. The Debrean structure changed the density distribution on the moon's surface, which resulted in the reshaping of this moon. Mirand is considered one of the few bodies in the solar system in which the circumference of the equator is smaller than the circumference from pole to pole, and this may be due to the debriefing that this moon is witnessing.


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