中文翻譯:
米蘭達是一顆圍繞著天王星運行的特別小月球。它的表面有許多神奇的特徵，像是大大小小的坑和奇怪的溝痕。這些都是來自NASA的旅行者2號太空船在1980年代拍到的照片所揭示的，讓科學家們對它的模樣有了更清晰的了解。有人認為，在米蘭達的冰冷表面下，曾經可能有一片大大的液態水海洋，現在可能正慢慢地結冰呢！米蘭達現在和其他冰冷的月球如歐羅巴（Europa）和土星的泰坦（Titan）一起，成為尋找水源和可能微生物生命的重要目標。因此，米蘭達不僅僅是一顆月亮，它也是探索宇宙奧秘的關鍵！
原文:
What is Miranda really like? Visually, old images from NASA’s Voyager 2 have been recently combined and remastered to result in the featured image of Uranus’s 500-kilometer-wide moon. In the late 1980s, Voyager 2 flew by Uranus, coming close to the cratered, fractured, and unusually grooved moon — named after a character from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Scientifically, planetary scientists are using old data and clear images to theorize anew about what shaped Miranda’s severe surface features. A leading hypothesis is that Miranda, beneath its icy surface, may have once hosted an expansive liquid water ocean which may be slowly freezing. Thanks to the legacy of Voyager 2, Miranda has joined the ranks of Europa, Titan, and other icy moons in the search for water, and, possibly, microbial life, in our Solar System. Jigsaw Moon: Astronomy Puzzle of the Day
來源:NASA每日圖片
