Verona Rupes

Verona Rupes is a cliff on Miranda, a moon of Uranus. The cliff has been estimated at 5 kilometers (3 mi)cite web
url=http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00044
title=PIA00044: Miranda high resolution of large fault
accessdate=2007-07-23
publisher=JPL, NASA] and 20 kilometers (12.4 mi) [cite web
url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54819
title=Highest cliffs in the solar system
accessdate=2006-11-28
publisher=Guinness World Records |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20021024003944/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54819
archivedate=2002-10-24] high, which makes it the tallest known cliff in the solar system.cite web
url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/miranda_creation_011016-1.html
title=Birth of Uranus' provocative moon still puzzles scientists
accessdate=2007-07-23
last=Chaikin
first=Andrew
date=2001-10-16
work=space.com
publisher=Imaginova Corp.
pages=p. 1]

It may have been created by a major impact, which caused the moon to disrupt and reassemblecite web
url=http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/BrowseTheGeologicSolarSystem/MirandaBack.html
title=Miranda
date=2003-05-08
publisher=USGS
accessdate=2006-11-28] , or by the crust riftingcite web
url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/miranda_creation_011016-2.html
title=Birth of Uranus' provocative moon still puzzles scientists
accessdate=2007-07-23
last=Chaikin
first=Andrew
date=2001-10-16
work=space.com
publisher=Imaginova Corp.
pages=p. 2] .

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