Verona Rupes - Mirandas Towers

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PIA01354: Uranus' Innermost Satellite Miranda

Link - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01354
Link - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/uranus

Links - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA00044.jpg
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00044
http://www.solarviews.com/cap/uranus/miranda6.htm

Verona Rupes is a cliff on Miranda, a moon of Uranus. The cliff face has been estimated to be from 5 kilometers (3 mi) to 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) high, which makes it the tallest known cliff in the solar system.

Link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verona_Rupes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_%28moon%29

Miranda - Voyager 2 - Close-up view of Uranus' moon Miranda from 31,000 km

Link - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hires/vg2_2684626.gif

Link - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/vg2_2684626.html