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This is a photograph of the surface of Miranda. The
ridges and valleys don't look like the usual satellite
surfaces with meteorites crateres.
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This is a photograph of the surface of Miranda in color.
We can see meteorite crateres, but only a few large ones
remains. That why we can say the surface of Miranda
is young.
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Here is a photograph of the whole planet.
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Here is a radar picture. The whole planet couldn't be
scanned. The radar gives us the elevations, the
resulting image is actually rebuilt from several
sources (photographs and 3d renderers.) Radar images
are called "mosaic".
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This is a photograph of the south pole of Miranda. You can
easily notice the very strange shapes of this satellite.
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