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Saturn and Mimas (natural colors; credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute )
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Caption NASA:"The Cassini Spacecraft looks beyond Saturn's limb toward the icy face of Mimas, the innermost of the Planet's major moons.
This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 3° below the Ring-Plane. Mimas is about 396 Km (approx. 246 miles) across.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini Spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 4, 2007 at a distance of approx. 2,7 MKM (such as about 1,7 MMs) from Saturn and 2,8 MKM (such as about 1,8 MMs) from Mimas.
Image scale is roughly 16 Km (about 10 miles) per pixel on Saturn and approx. 17 Km (such as about 11 miles) per pixel on Mimas".
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