# Uranus' Moon Miranda May House Subsurface Ocean, Study Reveals! 🌊

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**Created:** [November 1, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/uranus-moon-miranda-may-house-subsurface-ocean-study-reveals/294857 "2024-11-01T14:57:24Z")\
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**Summary:**

1. **Potential Ocean Discovery**  
A new study indicates that **Miranda** , one of Uranus’ moons, may contain a **vast subsurface ocean** , challenging previous beliefs about its frozen state.

2. **Voyager 2 Images Revisited**  
Research led by **Caleb Strom** and colleagues involved analyzing images from **Voyager 2** to understand Miranda’s unique surface features, suggesting they resulted from tidal heating.

3. **Modeling Interior Structures**  
The team developed a computer model to test various interior structures, finding that a subsurface ocean likely existed **100-500 million years ago** , approximately **62 miles (100 kilometers) deep**.

4. **Tidal Heating Mechanism**  
Tidal forces from interactions with neighboring moons are believed to have warmed Miranda’s interior, potentially maintaining the ocean and shaping its geological features.

5. **Current State of the Moon**  
The researchers propose that Miranda’s interior hasn’t fully frozen, as the absence of expected surface cracks suggests some residual warmth and the possibility of an existing thin ocean.

**Read more at:** [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2024-10-uranus-moon-miranda-ocean-beneath.html)