This image shows a crescent
Uranus
, a view that Earthlings never witnessed until
Voyager
2 flew near and then beyond
Uranus
on January 24, 1986.
Uranus'
diameter is 32,500 miles, a little over four times that of
Earth
.
* Image and text credit -
NASA
© 1997,
tq1997-12659@advanced.org