esahubble_opo0329c September 25th, 2003
Credit: NASA/ESA, M. Showalter (Stanford University/NASA/ESA Ames Research Center), J. Lissauer (NASA/ESA Ames Research Center)
Astronomers have discovered two of the smallest moons yet found around Uranus. The new moons, uncovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, are about 8 to 10 miles across (12 to 16 km) about the size of San Francisco. The two moons are so faint they eluded detection by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which discovered 10 small satellites when it flew by the gas giant planet in 1986.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0329c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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