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Stories about: Mimas

A Cosmic Pac-Man: Saturn's Moon Mimas In a recent flyby it conducted around the Saturnine moon Mimas, the NASA Cassini spacecraft managed to obtain the most detailed, high-resolution images of the space rock ever produced. The recent photos of the surface, combined with complex temperature maps, provide the most comprehensive view to date of the peculiar... 30 March 2010 08:47 GMT Mimas' Herschel Crater Gets New Image The NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft has recently snapped a new image of the Death Star-like Saturnine moon Mimas, with a focus on the massive Herschel Crater that adorns the space rock's surface. The feature is very peculiar because of its sheer size, which means that the object which impacted the moon must have bee... 18 February 2010 04:19 GMT Cassini to Investigate Saturn's 'Death Star' For fans of the Star Wars series, the Death Star is one of the most renowned symbols, right next to the light saber. But very few people know that the destroyer has an actual counterpart, the Saturnine moon Mimas. The celestial object is rather small, but it also features a structure on its surface called the “... 12 February 2010 05:25 GMT