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Voyager 2 passed Miranda’s strange world at a distance of only 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles) and sent back to Earth very detailed images of its "tortured" surface.
Nothing like them has been seen anywhere else in the solar system! Did a type III civilization conduct some "experiments" on Miranda?
Though only 470 km in diameter, which is one-seventh as large as Earth's moon, Miranda looks pretty badly. Someone or something pieced the
satellite all together from parts that didn't quite merge properly.
Miranda, discovered in 1948 by American planetary astronomer Gerard Kuiper, has several types of terrains which differ strikingly.
A seemingly ancient, cratered terrain is rent by deep fault valleys, rolling, subdued hills and ridges developed at the expense of, or
replacing, the first terrain type.
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Verona Rupes - cliffs on Miranda, the tallest known cliff in the solar system
Miranda are some amazing shear cliffs that are more than 12 miles high! By comparison, the impact crater at the bottom of this image is about 15 miles across.
Standing out in the sunlight at the terminator (the edge between light and dark) in the upper right corner of this close range photo of Uranus' moon Taken on
January 24, 1986 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Courtesy of NASA/JPL
Miranda's frozen world is very strange and complex in its composition. Some of the volcanic materials are intrinsically
darker and in other places faults expose darker material situated much deeper down.
The satellite's intersecting curvilinear ridges and troughs are abruptly truncated by the linear, grooved terrain. It seems very unlikely that this variety could have been caused by geological activity in such a small moon.
In 1986, Voyager 2 made its close approach to the Uranian moon.
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At least three terrain types of different age and geologic style are evident at this resolution of about 700 meters (2,300 feet). Credits: NASA/JPL
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Voyager 2 image of Uranus' moon, Miranda, from a distance of 31,000 km. This high-resolution (600 meters) view of Miranda is centered at 88 S, 268 E.
near the south pole. A complex array of fractures, grooves, and craters is evident in this image, pointing to an active geologic history.
The grooves reach depths of a few kilometers. The image is about 240 km across. (Voyager 2, FDS 2684626, P-29513 B/W) Credits: NASA/JPL
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Miranda's surface consists of two strikingly different major types of terrain. One is an old, heavily cratered, rolling terrain with relatively
uniform albedo, or reflectivity. The other is a young, complex terrain characterized by sets of bright and dark bands, scarps and ridges features
found in the ovoid regions at the top and bottom and in the distinctive "chevron" feature above and to the right of center. Credits: NASA/JPL
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Famous rectangular "Chevron" feature created by grids of perpendicular and parallel grooves. Credits: JPL, NASA
No one knows for sure what happened on Miranda in a distant past.
The moon seems to be made of three or four huge lumps of rock that have fused together.
According to one theory, Miranda formed of the remains of a moon that was once shattered probably five times, by an massive impact
(a collision with an asteroid (?)) and then managed in some way to pull itself back together again through the gravitational force.
Another speculation is that Miranda melted in some places so craters and cliffs appeared.
Both explanations are not particularly satisfying.
There is also another possibility, namely that a several million years old alien civilization had something to do with Miranda's odd formation.
A type III civilization, as suggested by Dr. Michio Kaku,
could harness the power of billions of stars within a galaxy and also be perfectly able
to put together planets and moons, as well as move them to a different location.
Did a type III civilization use Miranda as a proving ground in the past? Anything is possible.
Dr. Kaku explains Type, I, II and III civilizations
These are of course intriguing questions to which we currently have no answer. What is certain is that at least, one more
flyby is necessary to take a closer look at this strange and chaotic frozen world.
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Nothing like them has been seen anywhere else in the solar system! Did a type III civilization conduct some "experiments" on Miranda?
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MessageToEagle.com - What could melt this moon in this extremely cold region of the solar system?
