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BrownTown3

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on: Jul 27, 2018
Which moon of Uranus has the strangest terrain? What is a possible explanation for its jumbled appearance?
 
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Question 2

Which moon is considered likely to have a deep, subsurface ocean of liquid water?
 
  A) Europa
  B) Io
  C) Miranda
  D) Triton


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Miranda has a strange appearance, with layer, differentiated blocks turned edge on all over its surface in jumbled, haphazard fashion. Perhaps it was broken up by a huge collision with a Kuiper Belt body after it had formed into a sphere, and some of the pieces did not escape, but fell back together in this odd puzzle.

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