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Pictures of the moons of Uranus
Uranus Home
Click on any picture to get a larger image of that picture.
Picture of Titania
The highest-resolution picture of Titania taken by Voyager 2 in 1986.
Titania has a diameter of 1 600 kilometers and is the largest moon of Uranus. Titania has many impact craters of all sizes.
A fault valley, over 1,500 kilometers long and 75 kilometers wide, is visible in the center of this photo.
A large impact crater, nearly 300 kilometers across, is visible at top of the photograph.
Picture of Miranda
Picture of Miranda by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The smallest objects you can see on this photograph are just 700 meters across.
The area on the left of the photo is dominated by impact craters and gentle hills. To the right of this are valleys and ridges.
Picture of Ariel
The best close-up picture of Ariel by Voyager 2. Many valleys and overlapping impact craters can be seen.
Some questions about these pictures of Uranus' moons
Lets see what you have learned from these pictures ...
- Which spacecraft took all of these pictures?
- What feature is found on all the moons of Uranus?
- Which moon of Uranus is the darkest?
- Which moon of Uranus is the largest?
- Name two of the large moons of Uranus.
All images are courtesy NASA/JPL except where stated otherwise.
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This page was last updated on: August 9, 2001
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