Eugene Shoemaker - Horizon TV - Solar Empire: Edge of Darkness TV -
The mystery that we want to solve for Miranda is how these extraordinary features are found just in some places and not all over the satellite. The secret to that may lie in the impact history of all of the satellites and of Miranda in particular. Professor Eugene Shoemaker, cited Horizon: Uranus Encounter, BBC 1986
Miranda turned out to be the key to the entire Uranium system. Miranda’s size is on the borderline between round and irregular moons. Its bizarre surface is covered in grooves. There’s an oddly shaped white feature like a chevron about a hundred miles long. And giant cliffs of ice more than ten miles high. Horizon: Earth to Miranda, BBC 1990
Voyager surpassed itself when imaging Miranda, one of Uranus’s fifteen moons. Only three hundred miles across, it has plateaux, canyons, cliffs and craters, a crazy collection of surface features all packed into one small moon. And all seen in amazing detail by Voyager. Miranda is a collection of fragments of ice and rock that came together, disintegrated and re-formed. A dynamic surface that is still flexing and moving. Solar Empire: Edge of Darkness, Discovery 1997-2001