1987年4月1日

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天王星的衛星

旅行者2號近距離拍攝了五顆主要的衛星。它們都具有冰冷的表面，但比土星的衛星更暗且岩石更多。在它們的早期歷史中，有三顆在地理上非常活躍

作者：託倫斯·V·約翰遜, 羅伯特·漢密爾頓·布朗& 勞倫斯·A·索德布洛姆

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TORRENCE V. JOHNSON has an asteroid named after him: 2614 Torrence, a body about one kilometer in diameter. Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., he has been the project scientist for Galileo since 1977--some three quarters of his career as a planetary scientist. He was a member of the imaging team for Voyager and is now on the imaging team for the Cassini mission to Saturn.

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大眾科學 Magazine Vol 256 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Moons of Uranus” in 大眾科學 Magazine Vol. 256 No. 4 (), p. 48
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