Mimas, from 190.000 Km

This amazing perspective view captures battered Mimas against the hazy limb of Saturn.
It is obvious in such close-up images that Mimas (397 Km, or about 247 miles across) has been badly scarred by impacts over the eons. Its 130 kilometer- (80 mile-) wide crater, Herschel, lies in the darkness at right.
North on Mimas is up and rotated 19° to the right.

The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 21, 2006 using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of ultraviolet light centered at 338 nnmts. The image was acquired at a distance of approximately 191.000 Km (approx. 119.000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 91°. Image scale is about 1 Km (such as approx. 3.730 feet) per pixel.