Miranda is the smallest moon of Uranus and is marked by strange crevasses and canyons. It's largest canyon feature is the size of North America and has canyon walls 9 miles deep.
There is a theory that this satellite of Uranus was torn apart by the gravitational force of Uranus at least 9 times and then reformed. This could account for the very strange terrain. Miranda is a long time favorite Space Sound recording. It has very deep rhythmic base sounds. You can feel the full moon effect. Sounds like strange winds and occasionally it sounds like choirs and voices singing, which gives Miranda a magical quality.
For more information about plasma and magnetic fields and their relationship to our sound recordings from space, consult the April 1991 issue of Scientific American Magazine - article entitled "Collisionless Shock Waves".
Special thanks to our friends and contacts at various U.S National Space Agencies and Universities. This Space Recording Series is dedicated to the memory of Fred Scarf, PhD, who developed the acoustic recording project for Voyager and is directly responsible for the sounds you hear on these recordings from space.
Authentic photos made available courtesy of JPL and NASA.
SATELLITE PROFILE
Constants:
MEAN RADIUS: 235.8 km
MASS: 0.000011 (Earth=1)
DENSITY: 1.15 (gm/cm)
GRAVITY: 0.009 (Earth=1)
ORBIT PERIOD: 1.414 (Earth days)
ROTATION PERIOD: 1.414 (Earth days)
SEMI-MAJOR AXIS OF ORBIT: 130,000 km
ECCENTRICITY OF ORBIT: 0.027
Miranda is the smallest moon of Uranus and is marked by strange crevasses and canyons. It's largest canyon feature is the size of North America and has canyon walls 9 miles deep.
There is a theory that this satellite of Uranus was torn apart by the gravitational force of Uranus at least 9 times and then reformed. This could account for the very strange terrain. Miranda is a long time favorite Space Sound recording. It has very deep rhythmic base sounds. You can feel the full moon effect. Sounds like strange winds and occasionally it sounds like choirs and voices singing, which gives Miranda a magical quality.
For more information about plasma and magnetic fields and their relationship to our sound recordings from space, consult the April 1991 issue of Scientific American Magazine - article entitled "Collisionless Shock Waves".
Special thanks to our friends and contacts at various U.S. National Space Agencies and Universities. This Space Recording Series is dedicated to the memory of Fred Scarf, PhD, who developed the acoustic recording project for Voyager and is directly responsible for the sounds you hear on these recordings from space.
Authentic photos made available courtesy of JPL and NASA.
SATELLITE PROFILE
Constants
MEAN RADIUS: 235.8 km
MASS: 0.000011 (Earth=1)
DENSITY: 1.15 (gm/cm)
GRAVITY: 0.009 (Earth=1)
ORBIT PERIOD: 1.414 (Earth days)
ROTATION PERIOD: 1.414 (Earth days)
SEMI-MAJOR AXIS OF ORBIT: 130,000 km
ECCENTRICITY OF ORBIT: 0.027