Miranda: Fractures, Grooves and Craters PIA00140
This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken 24 January 1986, from a distance of about 31,000 kilometers, shortly before the spacecraft's closest approach to the Uranian moon.
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Image Credit: JPL, NASA  

The high resolution of 600 meters reveals a bewildering variety of fractures, grooves and craters, as well as features of different albedos (reflectancea). This clear-filter, narrow-angle view encompasses areas of older, heavily cratered terrain with a wide variety of forms. The grooves and troughs reach depths of a few kilometers and expose materials of different albedos. The great variety of directions of fractures and troughs, and the different densities of impact craters on them, signify a long, complex geologic evolution of this satellite.  
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