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Keywords: Uranus, ring
![Миранда, шеврон и Алонсо](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/02/18/0001174806/miranda_vg2mos1.preview.jpg)
16.02.2002
Miranda is a bizarre world which surely had a tempestuous past. The innermost of the larger Uranian moons, Miranda is almost 300 miles in diameter and was discovered on today's date in 1948 by American planetary astronomer Gerard Kuiper.
![Спутник Урана Миранда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/23/0001179152/miranda_vg2_big.preview.gif)
24.12.1995
NASA's robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed the planet Uranus and its moons in 1986. While the cloud tops of Uranus proved to be rather featureless, the surface of Miranda, the innermost of Uranus' large moons, showed several interesting features.
![Пристальный взгляд на наклонную планету](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/11/19/0001201234/uranus_keck_c2.preview.jpg)
18.11.2004
These sharp views of tilted gas giant Uranus show dramatic details of the planet's atmosphere and ring system. The remarkable ground-based images were made using a near-infrared camera and the Keck Adaptive Optics system to reduce the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere.
![Кольца Урана](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/24/0001179278/uranus_hst_big.preview.gif)
30.04.1996
The rings of Uranus are thin, narrow, and dark compared to other planetary ring systems. Brightened artificially by computer, the ring particles reflect as little light as charcoal, although they are really made of ice chucks darkened by rock.
![Спутник Урана Ариэль - мир ущелий](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/24/0001179237/ariel_vg2_big.preview.gif)
3.03.1996
What formed Ariel's valleys? This question presented itself when Voyager 2 passed this satellite of Uranus in January 1986. Speculation includes that heating caused by the ancient tides of Uranus caused moonquakes and massive shifting of the moon's surface.
![Кольцо у планеты Уран](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/01/15/0001185865/uranusrings_eso.preview.jpg)
15.01.2003
Yes it does look like Saturn, but Saturn is one of only four giant ringed planets in our Solar System. And while Saturn has the brightest rings, this system of rings and moons actually belongs to planet Uranus, imaged here in near-infrared light by the Antu telescope at the ESO Parnal Observatory in Chile.
![Миранда](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/07/0001192751/miranda_vg2mos1.preview.jpg)
19.02.1998
Miranda is a bizarre world which surely had a tempestuous past. The innermost of the larger Uranian moons, Miranda is almost 300 miles in diameter and was discovered only 50 years ago (February 16, 1948) by the renown American planetary astronomer Gerard Kuiper.
![Таинственный темный спутник Урана Умбриэль](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/24/0001179267/umbriel_vg2_big.preview.gif)
7.04.1996
Why is Umbriel so dark? This dark moon reflects only half the light of other Uranus' moons such as Ariel. And what is that bright ring at the top? Unfortunately, nobody yet knows. These questions presented themselves when Voyager 2 passed this satellite of Uranus in January 1986.
![Уран - наклоненная планета](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/08/20/0001178939/uranus_vg2.preview.gif)
16.08.1995
This picture was snapped by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986 - the only spacecraft ever to visit Uranus. Uranus is the third largest planet after Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus has many moons and a ring system.
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