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Mimas, in the Night of Saturn...
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Caption originale:"Cassini looked toward the Night Side of Saturn to spy the darkened orb of Mimas barely visible here near the center of the image hugging the Planet's shadow. To the left of Mimas are several bright features in the faint D-Ring.
The innermost of Saturn's medium-sized icy moons, Mimas, is 397 Km (about 247 miles) across.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 7, 2006 at a distance of approx. 3,9 MKM (such as about 2,4 MMs) from Mimas and 4 MKM (about 2,5 MMs) from Saturn. The Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle is 161°.
Image scale is approx. 24 Km (about 15 miles) per pixel on Saturn".
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