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Mimas is on Sight!
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the high north on heavily cratered Mimas. The unmistakable Herschel impact crater is seen at lower left.
Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Mimas (397 Km, or about 247 miles across).
Nota Lunexit: osservate bene la linea che disegna il profilo visibile di Mimas (se over-saturate il frame il lavoro sarà perfetto) e quindi notate la forma vagamente ovoidale di questa piccola luna.
Ed è proprio nella forma non sferica, comunque, che si cela la differenza tra "corpo celeste planetario" (piccolo o grande non importa) e "planetoide".
The moon's North Pole is up and tilted slightly toward Cassini. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 11, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approx. 795.000 Km (about 494.000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-Spacecraft, or Phase, angle of 88°.
Image scale is roughly 5 Km (about 3 miles) per pixel".
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