It is the 2nd largest "moon" of Uranus and the 2nd darkest. Two more moons (Ariel and Umbriel) were discovered by …

The most comprehensive image search on the web. There are dark patches in its lead hemisphere and craters which scientist have yet to figure out what they are. Google Images. The first two moons (Titania and Oberon) were discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 1787. Images | June 19, 1999 Uranus Satellite - Miranda This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken Jan. 23, 1986, as the spacecraft neared Uranus. This image was acquired from a distance of 1.38 million kilometers (860,000 miles) through the clear filter of Voyager's narrow-angle camera. The only images of this satellite were taken in 1982 by the Voyager 2 and no other missions have been planned in the future. Uranus' Innermost Satellite Miranda Full Resolution: TIFF (212.4 kB) JPEG (48.46 kB) 1998-11-11: U Rings: Voyager: VG ISS - Narrow Angle: 400x200x1: PIA01350: Rings of Uranus at 1.44 kilometers Full Resolution: TIFF (23.94 kB) JPEG (28.94 kB) 1998-11-02 Miranda is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites, This is an image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2. Uranus has 27 known moons.

Uranus' moon Miranda is shown in a computer-assembled mosaic of images obtained Jan. 24, 1986, by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft.