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Bianca (moon)

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A photo of Bianca, one of the moons of the planet Uranus, showing its small, round shape in space.

Bianca is a small moon that goes around the planet Uranus. We learned about it in 1986 when the spacecraft Voyager 2 sent us pictures from space. At first, scientists called it S/1986 U 9, but later they named it after a character in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. Today, it is also known as Uranus VIII.

Bianca is part of a group of moons called the Portia group. This group includes moons like Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, and Portia. These moons travel around Uranus in similar ways and look alike. Bianca is not very big, about 64 kilometers by 46 kilometers (40 miles by 29 miles).

In the pictures from Voyager 2, Bianca looks stretched out, with one side longer than the other. Its surface looks grey, and not much more is known about this little moon. There is also an asteroid named 218 Bianca far from Uranus.

Images

A colorful image of the planet Uranus taken by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986.
A beautiful montage showing the planet Jupiter and its four largest moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — photographed by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
A colorful view of Pluto and its moon Charon, showing detailed surface features as captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
An image of asteroid 243 Ida and its tiny moon Dactyl taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1993, showing details of the asteroid's surface.

Related articles

Voyager 2
Uranus
Cressida (moon)
Desdemona (moon)
Portia (moon)
Asteroid

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