A recent study conducted on the planet Uranus, one of the planets of the solar system in the Milky Way, has revealed that the planet has strange phenomena that need to be carefully studied and examined.
The most important phenomena of the planet far from the Earth were that it has 27 moons, the smallest and closest to the planet is called “Miranda”, and its diameter is less than 500 km.
And international media have revealed that the surface of Miranda’s moon is unusual and attracts the attention of researchers, as it is characterized by the fact that it contains areas with a geological mixture of fractured soil to the point that one might think that Miranda is composed of pieces glued together, and this adhesion appears inconsistent.
In a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal, two researchers led by the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute in California investigated the possible origin of deposits of regolith, or rocky debris, on Uranus’ moon Miranda.
Regolith is defined as a heterogeneous layer that overlays rocks and consists of dust, dirt, and thick fractured rocks. The surface material on both the Moon and Mars is usually referred to as rigolite or rhyolite, in contrast to the soil on Earth, as the soil provides nutrients and minerals necessary for growth, while it can consider the regolith as dead soil.
The purpose of this study was to determine the internal structure of Miranda, and in particular its internal temperature, which could help determine whether Miranda hosts an internal ocean.
“Miranda is unlikely to contain a subsurface ocean to date due to its small size,” said NASA Ames Research Center scientist Dr. Chloe Bedingfield. heat within Miranda and enhance the longevity of the subsurface ocean for some time. This trapped heat would also promote internal activity for longer periods of time in Miranda, such as geological activity that formed an o more crowns than Miranda or the global rift system”.
