Celestial Objects
Mimas
Moon of Saturn
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Mimas is Saturn's smallest and innermost major moon, an ice body dominated by the 130-kilometer Herschel crater, whose scale relative to the moon itself gives Mimas its famous Death-Star-like appearance.
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Diameter (km) Orbital Distance Discovery Year Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. NASA Solar System Exploration
National Aeronautics and Space Administrationscience.nasa.gov, Saturn Moons: MimasQuote, science.nasa.gov, Saturn Moons: Mimas
The impact that blasted this crater out of Mimas probably came close to breaking the moon apart.
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