Oberon

Source: NASA

Source: NASA

 
 

OBERON! Meet the second largest moon of Uranus.

This moon is short and to the point- there is very little information available about this moon because, drumroll… the last time we observed it with instrumentation was 1986! What we do know about this body is there are two really interesting features on it: a big ‘ole crater named Hamlet and a distinct mountain that rises 6 km above the surface! No joke, if you look at one of the photos of Oberon you can see the little (err, not so little) mountain poking out from the surface on the limb in the bottom left corner of the photo! Even moons in the outer reaches of the solar system have something beautiful to show us. Aaaaaaand that’s it for Uranus, folks! Onto Neptune, Ad Astra!

 
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