IMAGE 100_199\191.Lbm,Through Earth-bound telescopes we can see only five moons circling around Uranus. Voyager 2 discovered another ten when it encountered the planet in January 1986.
IMAGE 100_199\192.Lbm,Two of the many new moons Voyager 2 discovered when it encountered Uranus. They appear to be shepherd moons, keeping ring particles in place.
IMAGE 100_199\197.Lbm,Voyager images showed that in natural colour Uranus was a uniform blue-green colour, with no trace of cloud bands.
IMAGE 100_199\198.Lbm,When images of Uranus returned by the Voyager are computer- processed, a dense haze (orange/red) appears over the south pole.
IMAGE 200_299\234.Lbm,Voyager 2 looks back at Uranus after its close encounter in January 1986, viewing the planet as a slim crescent.
IMAGE 200_299\248.Lbm,A photomontage of Voyager 2 images simulates what Uranus would look like from a spaceship in orbit around its moon Miranda.
IMAGE 200_299\260.Lbm,The gas giants Uranus and Neptune dwarf our own planet Earth.
IMAGE 900_999\930.Lbm,Ariel, one of Uranus's moons, is some 850 km across. It is criss-crossed with faults.
