Cosmic Scale
Miranda
Moon of Uranus · 129,390 km from Uranus
How big is Miranda?
Miranda is about 472 km across.
See Miranda in 3D, at true scale
Miranda is the smallest of Uranus's five large moons and one of the strangest-looking worlds known: a patchwork of grooved terrain, giant cliffs and smooth plains, as if it had been shattered and pieced back together.
At a glance
| Diameter | 472 km |
|---|---|
| Mass | 6.40 × 10¹⁹ kg |
| Diameter compared with Earth | 0.037 × Earth |
| Size | 472 km |
| Orbits | Uranus, every 1.4 days |
| Discovered | 1948, Gerard Kuiper |
| Visited | Voyager 2, 1986 |
Good to know
- Verona Rupes, a cliff about 20 km high, may be the tallest in the Solar System.
- A rock dropped from the top would take about 12 minutes to fall.
- Only the southern half has ever been photographed.