Dot Against the Dark

As if trying to get our attention, Mimas is positioned against the shadow of Saturn's rings, bright on dark. As we near summer in Saturn's northern hemisphere, the rings cast ever larger shadows on the planet. With a reflectivity of about 96 percent, Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometers across) appears ...

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Map of Mimas - February 2010

This global map of Saturn moon Mimas was created using images taken during NASA Cassini spacecraft flybys, with NASA Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini coverage.

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Multicolor Mimas

This extreme false-color view of Mimas shows color variation across the moon surface

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Farewell to Mimas

In its season of "lasts," NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its final close approach to Saturn's moon Mimas on January 30, 2017. At closest approach, Cassini passed 25,620 miles (41,230 kilometers) from Mimas. All future observations of Mimas will be from more than twice this distance. This mosaic is one of ...

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Crescent Mimas

A thin sliver of Mimas is illuminated, the long shadows showing off its many craters, indicators of the moon's violent history. The most famous evidence of a collision on Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometers across) is the crater Herschel that gives Mimas its Death Star-like appearance. See PIA12568 for more ...

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Streaked Craters in False-Color

A false-color view of Saturn moon Mimas from NASA Cassini spacecraft accentuates terrain-dependent color differences and shows dark streaks running down the sides of some of the craters on the region of the moon that leads in its orbit around Saturn.

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Shadows and Rings

Among the interplay of Saturn shadow and rings, Mimas, which appears in the lower-right corner of the image, orbits Saturn as a set of the ever-intriguing spokes appear in the B ring to the right of center in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft.

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Mimas Northern Polar Maps - February 2010

The northern hemisphere of Saturn moon Mimas is seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available NASA Cassini and Voyager images.

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Mimas Three-Quarter Portrait

Appearing like a cyclops gazing off into space, Saturn moon Mimas and its large Herschel Crater are profiled from NASA Cassini spacecraft. Herschel Crater is 130 kilometers 80 miles wide and covers most of the left of this image.

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