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Mimas
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Caption NASA originale:"Mimas plows along in its orbit, its pockmarked surface in crisp relief. The bright, steep walls of the enormous crater, Herschel (130 Km, or 80 miles wide), gleam in the Sunlight.
The lit terrain seen here is on the Leading Hemisphere of Mimas (about 397 Km, or 247 miles across). North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 16, 2006 at a distance of approx. 221.000 Km (about 137.000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 80°.
The image scale is roughly 1 Km (about 0,6 mile) per pixel".
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