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Miranda is not a space probe sent from Earth, it is a natural satellite of Uranus, i.e. a moon. The probe we sent to Uranus was Voyager 2, which visited in 1986. The confusion stems from our casual use of the word 'satellite'. Strictly, it means an object which orbits another, so the Moon is Earth's natural satellite, and we have put up many artificial satellites, such as those which study the weather and transmit television programmes. We have also sent spacecraft to become satellites of other bodies, such as the Mars Orbiter. If the craft has a different objective we usually call it a space probe.

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