Regional Planetary Image Facility

Uranus and Satellites Imagery

Uranus and Satellites Mosaic

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Uranus and its five major moons are depicted in this montage of images acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its January 1986 flyby of the planet. Uranus appears as a uniformly blue globe, similar to how the eye would naturally see it; only with computer-aided image processing do subtle bands in the planet's upper atmosphere appear. The moons, from largest to smallest as they appear here, are Ariel, Miranda, Titania, Oberon and Umbriel. Voyager 2 also discovered 10 new, smaller moons and relayed data on Uranus' ring system during the planetary encounter nearly 2 billion miles from Earth.