Miranda

Miranda (Uranus V) was discovered in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper using a telescope of two meters, at McDonald Observatory. The southern hemisphere of Miranda was photographed by Voyager 2 in January 1986.
Its orbit is prograde (forward) and nearly circular (eccentricity = 0.0013).
Miranda is constituted by a roughly equal mixture of ice and rock. It is the nearest of the moons of Uranus, the semi-major axis of its orbit is 129 900 km.
Uranus is practically lying on the ecliptic plane with an inclination of its axis of rotation of 97.86 °, the orbit of Miranda follows the atypical rotation of the planet.
A catastrophic event is certainly at the origin of this inclination. Uranus' moons were formed from the sub-nebula that gave birth to Uranus.
Miranda has a slope (4.338 ° to the plane of the equator of Uranus), greater than other large moons of Uranus (≈ 0 °). Miranda innermost large moons of Uranus is a strange world that has probably had a tumultuous past.
Closely examined by Voyager 2 in 1986, this dark world and far proved to be quite surprising.
Miranda shows a unique variety of terrain which led some astronomers to believe that it was broken up 5 times during its evolution as shown in the famous "chevron" feature, the brilliant V-shape just above the image center. This composite image of high resolution Miranda shows a series of peaks, valleys and smooth surfaces as well as obscure canyons ≈ 24 km depth as the large crater (center of image).
The center of the picture is the south pole of Uranus.