447-uranus-from-miranda-dixon – Deep rift valleys mark the surface of this strange moon that has apparently been repeatedly disrupted and reassembled. This astronomical illustration depicts the gas giant Uranus as viewed from the fractured icy surface of its moon, Miranda. The planet looms in the airless sky with its thin, vertical ring system faintly visible cutting across its disc. The rugged canyon in the foreground is filled with fractured ice, ridges, and complex graben topography, characteristic of Miranda's extreme geological formations like Verona Rupes.; digital, 2006, for Griffith Observatory, © Don Dixon
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