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The moons of Uranus, Neptune and PlutoVoyager 2, launched in August 1977, will fly by Uranus in January, 1986, passing within 29,000 km of that planet's innermost moon, Miranda. It will subsequently encounter Neptune in August 1989, flying within 10,000 km of its inner satellite, Triton; images made of this moon by a high resolution camera are expected to reveal surface features as small as a few hundred meters in diameter. The composition of the Uranian moons will br inferred from their near-IR reflectance spectra and mean densities. While the spacecraft will not fly by Pluto, it is expected that the lessons learned from the Voyager encounters with Neptune and Uranus will expand current understanding of Pluto and its moon, Charon.
Document ID
19850054698
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Brown, R. H.
(California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA, United States)
Cruikshank, D. P.
(Hawaii, University Honolulu, HI, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1985
Publication Information
Publication: Scientific American
Volume: 253
ISSN: 0036-8733
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
85A36849
Distribution Limits
Public
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