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Which five moons are the largest moons of Uranus?
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Uranus
Two views of the southern hemisphere of Uranus, produced from images obtained by Voyager 2 on Jan. 17, 1986. In colours visible to the unaided human eye, Uranus is a bland, nearly featureless sphere (left). In a colour-enhanced view processed to bring out low-contrast details, Uranus shows the banded cloud structure common to the four giant planets (right). From the polar perspective of Voyager at the time, the bands appear concentric around the planet's rotational axis, which is pointing nearly toward the Sun. Small ring-shaped features in the right image are artifacts arising from dust in the spacecraft's camera.
The five largest moons of Uranus are Titania, Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel, and Miranda.1
These major satellites range in radius from approximately 240 to 800 km. In terms of size, Titania, Oberon, Umbriel, and Ariel are the four largest, while Miranda is the fifth largest, measuring about half the size of Ariel or Umbriel. Unlike the smaller, irregular moons of Uranus, these five are considered regular satellites, as they formed in equatorial orbits at the same time as the planet.1