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Fractures, Grooves and Craters Target Name:   Miranda Spacecraft:   Voyager 2 Produced by:   NASA/JPL Copyright:  NASA Copyright Free Policy Date Released:  January 24, 1986 Related Document Miranda Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size miranda3.gif GIF 789 x 768 261K miranda3.jpg JPEG 789 x 768 64K This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken Jan 24, l986, 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 fracture sand troughs, and the different densities of impact craters on them, signify a long, complex geologic evolution of this satellite. The Voyager project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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