The King and I...

A small and battered reminder of the Solar System's violent youth, the ice moon Mimas hurtles around its gas giant parent, Saturn.
With its "poor dimensions" (Mimas is only about 397 Km across), this little moon is dwarfed by the immensity of Saturn (the Ringed Gas Planet is more than 150 times as wide as Mimas).
Mimas is seen here against the night side of Saturn and Saturn itself is faintly lit by sunlight reflecting off its Rings.

The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Jan. 20, 2006, at a distance of approx. 1,4 MKM (such as about 900,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 145°. Image scale is about 9 Km (approx. 5 miles) per pixel.