I'm John Batcher. Bob Zimmerman is here, and after space engineering comes space exploration, Bob is proposing that we're going to Miranda and Ariel.

What are those, Bob?

All right.

Well, actually, it's not just Miranda and Ariel.

Last week, I posted a really, really cool image of the smallest of the five classically known moons of uranus this was miranda it's the

smallest it's the innermost it's got a uranus has a lot more moons than these five but these are

the ones that were known before the space age and this image was really strange this is a strange

object um and I did this because

I've been delving through the archives of the various early missions because we haven't looked at

these in a long time. Voyager 2 went past Uranus 40 years ago. And at the time, it was really,

really exciting. We were getting the first look at these,

the planet and the moons. Hadn't seen these before. So the data was really interesting. And I thought

we should look at it again. But in looking at it again, I realized, you know, we really don't know

much about these planets. For example, Miranda, we only saw one hemisphere. The other was in darkness.

And Voyager 2 was gone before it came out into daylight. So we saw one hemisphere, the other was in darkness, and Voyager 2 was gone

before it came out into daylight.

So we don't know what the other half of Miranda looks like.

And there really aren't a lot of images.

And so he decided I'm going to do a tour for the next week of all these inner moons on what

Voyager 2 saw.

And so I also showed early this week in this tour area, which is the next

moon out of the classic moons. And it's a very cracked, fractured surface. Looks very different

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