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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Source NASA Solar System Exploration
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1. NASA Solar System Exploration
National Aeronautics and Space Administrationscience.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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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.
Associated With: Enceladus, Enceladus page, Overview section, orbit sentence (Mimas neighbor)
Enceladus orbits Saturn at a distance of 148,000 miles (238,000 kilometers) between the orbits of two other moons, Mimas and Tethys.
View the Source Mimas (Wikipedia)
In Group: Moons of Saturn, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Moons of Saturn, Lead sentence
Mimas is the seventh-largest natural satellite of Saturn.
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