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Highlighting Herschel Crater
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Caption NASA:"The Herschel crater dominates this view of Saturn's moon Mimas. The about 130-Km, or approx. 80-mile, wide crater is located in the Middle Latitudes of Mimas.
The most brightly lit Terrain seen here - lit by the Sun - is on the Leading Hemisphere of the moon. Light reflected from Saturn dimly lights the other side of the moon.
This view is centered on terrain at 37° North Lat. and 300° West Long. The North Pole of Mimas lies on the Terminator, about a quarter of the way inward from the top of the image.
Scale in the original image was 10 Km (about 6 miles) per pixel. The image has been magnified by a factor of two and contrast-enhanced to aid visibility. The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 3, 2009.
The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 1,7 MKM (about 1,1 MMs) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 119°".
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