Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
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A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...
"To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising," said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...
Over the last few decades ... radius of just 146 miles (235 kilometers), which means the ocean would have taken up almost half the moon's entire body. It also means that finding such an ocean ...
A new study suggests that extraterrestrials could be hiding just 1.7 billion miles from Earth - on Uranus' moon, Miranda.
NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...
This ocean would have filled over half of the moon's entire body, at about 60 miles deep below a 20-mile-thick icy crust. "That result was a big surprise to the team," co-author Caleb Strom ...
Given Miranda's radius is just 146 miles, this suggests the ocean would have filled almost half of the moon's body ... should operate in the system over a number of years, orbiting the ice ...
Out of Uranus’ large moons, Miranda is the smallest at about 290 miles in diameter, or about one-seventh the size of Earth’s moon.