Moons of Uranus from Uranus outward, and this finally stuck. In 1852, Herschel's son John Herschel gave the four then-known moons their names. No other discoveries were made for almost another century. In 1948, Gerard Kuiper at the McDonald Observatory discovered the smallest and the last of the five large, spherical moons, Miranda. Decades later, the flyby of the "Voyager 2" space probe in January 1986 led to the discovery of ten further inner moons. Another satellite, Perdita, was discovered in 1999 after studying old "Voyager" photographs. Uranus was the last giant planet without any known irregular moons, but since 1997 nine distant
The Secret of the Martian Moons that unlocks Mars’ secret. A political controversy is raging on Earth as to whether or not to continue to support the Martian outpost, where Nelson’s father is research chief. Those in favor point to the marvelous machines found on Mars, any one of which could advance civilization eons, if their secret could be discovered. Going to work on the problem, Nelson finds out – in an interesting chain of events that characterizes a Mars basically like the canal-covered red planet we know it to be now – that the Martian moons Phebos (sic) and Deimos, are centers of tyrannical factions