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Lost in the Dark (Natural Colors; credits: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)
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Caption NASA:"Lit terrain seen here is on the Trailing Hemisphere of Mimas. This view looks toward the Northern, sunlit side of the Rings, from just above the Ring-Plane.
The image was taken in Visible Light with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 3, 2009. The view was obtained at a distance of approx. 760.000 Km (about 472.000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 61°.
Image scale is roughly 5 Km (a little more than 3 miles) per pixel.
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