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Uranus and Puck - Illustration

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: a-ura99-00016

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 25 cm

This is how Uranus and its tiny satellite Puck might look from a position in space about a thousand miles above and beyond Puck itself. With a diameter of about 100 miles, Puck is the largest and outermost of the ten known "inner" satellites that orbit Uranus within a radius of 51 thousand miles. Further in toward Uranus on the right is Belinda, a satellite that is about 40 miles in diameter. Even closer to Uranus on the far left is the 60-mile-diameter satellite Portia. On Uranus itself can be seen a giant, cyclonic storm that's nearly as big as the Earth.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - BELINDA - GLOBAL VIEW - ILLUSTRATION - PLANET - PORTIA - PUCK - RING - SATELLITE - URANUS - URANUS MOON -