Can we see the Moons of Uranus at night with a naked eye?
Good question! Uranus has 27 fascinating moons and a complicated ring system. The ring is a completely different form of ring than the one around Saturn or Jupiter. At Uranus there is a very obvious partial ring, or “ring arc”. Many moons are icy moons with fascinating surface features. These icy moons have no atmosphere nor magnetosphere. The interiors of these moons are not active, and there is not much possibility for life. The moons are, in order; Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, and Puck. These moons are part of a group called the “Small Moons”. Icy moons of Uranus are; Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Caliban, and Sycorax. In 1999, four more Uranian moons were found. They include Prospero, Setebos, Stephano and 1986 U 10. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/uranus/moons_and_rings.html * also, see here, for more info… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus * To sum this up, Uranus is the seventh planet from the
