Miranda

Miranda — moon orbiting Uranus, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

A patchwork world that looks shattered and reassembled, home to the tallest cliff in the solar system.

Radius
235.8 km
Orbit
130k km from Uranus
Period
1.41 days
Feature
Verona Rupes — a 20 km cliff, tallest known

Seeing Miranda in real time

Cosmoscope puts Miranda at its true position in the solar system, computed from JPL-derived ephemeris and updated continuously. Open the live 3D view to see, in real time, how far Miranda is from the Sun and from Earth right now, how many minutes or hours light takes to cross that gap, and how fast it is moving along its orbit. Scrub the timeline to place Miranda where it was on any past date, or where it will be years from now.

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