EP6- 1.8 billion miles away, you can find the mysteriously ugly moon, Miranda. But what would it be like to stand on the surface of Miranda?

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Script - Around 1.8 billion miles away, in the cold dark regions of the solar system you can find the tilted ice giant, Uranus. But in the darkness of this mighty planet lurks a mysteriously ugly moon known as Miranda. Miranda is one of 27 strange moons that are apart of the Uranian system and is the innermost, but smallest of the five round satellites. But what makes this moon so interesting is that it has a surface unlike any other moon that's been seen so far. So what would it be like to stand on the deformed surface of, Miranda. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit the Uranian system so far, which means Uranus and its moons still hold many mysteries that are waiting to be discovered. But if a team of astronauts traveled to Uranus, Miranda would definitely be a great starting point, as it's surface is ideal for exploration. Miranda's surface is mostly made up of water ice, that is cross crossed by huge canyons. Depending on where the brave exploring humans landed, they might see the Verona Rupes, the largest known cliff in the solar system, which is over 3 miles high (5km). Or maybe the giant 120 mile (200km) wide, racetrack like grooved structures called coronae which are located in the Southern Hemisphere, named Arden, Elsinore and Inverness. However, it wouldn't be easy to explore this mysterious landscape, as it is no place for life as we no it. In order to stand on Miranda the explorers would require a highly advanced suit, as Miranda's gravity is less than 1 percent of Earths, has no atmosphere and has a blisteringly cold average surface temperature of -187° C (-335 F). Miranda does not experience any weather but may experience bone shaking moon quakes or cryovolcanic eruptions that would cause ice magma to explode out of the deformed moons surface. Looking up the space explorers would see the darkness of space, with glistening stars flickering away in the distance and the other major moons of the Uranian system forming a visible disk in the sky. But if you were on the side of the Miranda facing Uranus, the mighty ice giant would look about 41 times larger than our own moon does here on Earth. Although the explorers might not want to hang around for be very long appreciating the beauty of Uranus, as the planets intense radiation would bombard the ugly moons surface. Miranda may hold many more secrets that are just waiting to be discovered, but we will just have to wait until NASA send another probe to the Uranian system to unlock the mysteries of Miranda.
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Short clip of Verona Rupes - Wanderers - by Erik Wernquist
Images and Animations - NASA & ESA
Music - Martian Cowboy - Incompetech
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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