“MOONS OF URANUS”

“MOONS OF URANUS”

“The colleges of the lonely planet”

Uranus is the planet closest to the ?Sun?. Its name is a reference to Uranus, the Greek

deity of the sky, who was the great-grandfather of Ares (Mars), grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter),

and father of Cronus, according to Greek mythology (Saturn). It possesses the Solar System's

third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass. The most intriguing aspect of

this planet that has piqued scientists' curiosity is its moon. Uranus has 27 moons?? and 13

rings. As a result, in order to pique your curiosity ??and provide you with some background

information, the team "ASTROPHYSICAST" has compiled a list of intriguing facts about the

moons of this ice world for you.

1. Miranda - Miranda is Uranus's ??smallest and innermost ??moon, orbiting the

planet at a distance of 129,390 kilometres.

2. Mab - Mab's existence was not established until 2003, despite the fact that she was

imaged by Voyager. Its size is unknown, although it is known to be strongly affected

by the orbits of nearby moons.

3. Puck – Puck is Uranus' biggest inner moon, located between the rings and Miranda,

Uranus' first bigger moon.

Cupid, the smallest of the inner moons, was discovered in 2003 and measures about 18

kilometres in diameter.

5. Portia — The second-largest inner moon, Portia is the leader of a group of moons

that orbit in a similar way. It measures around 140 kilometres in diameter.

6. Ariel — Ariel is the fourth-largest moon and has the third-largest mass. About 35%

of the planet's surface was photographed by Voyager

7. Umbriel — Of the Urania ??moons, Umbriel has the darkest surface and is one of

the most extensively cratered.

Titania is the eighth-largest moon in the Solar System, with a diameter of 1,580

kilometres.

9. Oberon - The most distant of Uranus' five main moons, Oberon is largely outside of the planet's magnetosphere.

? All 27 moons of Uranus are named after characters from Alexander Pope's

or William Shakespeare's works??. Titania and Oberon were the first to

be found, by William Herschel in 1787. The Hubble Space Telescope was

used in 2003 to make the most recent discoveries, such as Cupid and

Francisco. Despite their abundance, the moons aren't very enormous, the

aggregate mass of the five main moons is less than half that of Neptune's

largest moon.