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Crescent Mimas

A thin sliver of Mimas is illuminated, the long shadows showing off its many craters, indicators of the moon's violent history. The most famous evidence of a collision on Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometers across) is the crater Herschel that gives Mimas its Death Star-like appearance. See PIA12568 for more ...

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA18285
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Shadows and Rings

Among the interplay of Saturn shadow and rings, Mimas, which appears in the lower-right corner of the image, orbits Saturn as a set of the ever-intriguing spokes appear in the B ring to the right of center in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17154
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Brilliance Beyond the Rings

The Cassini spacecraft looks past the illuminated side of Saturn rings to the brilliant moon Enceladus.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA11558
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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Sunset on the Jets

As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness in this image observed by NASA Cassini spacecraft.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA14642
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

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Vortices Bump into a Hot Spot in Jupiter Atmosphere

In this series of images from NASA Cassini spacecraft, a dark, rectangular hot spot interacts with a line of vortices that approaches from on the upper-right side. The interaction distorts the shape of the hot spot, leaving it diminished.

More: https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA16838
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/GSFC

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Mimas Three-Quarter Portrait

Appearing like a cyclops gazing off into space, Saturn moon Mimas and its large Herschel Crater are profiled from NASA Cassini spacecraft. Herschel Crater is 130 kilometers 80 miles wide and covers most of the left of this image.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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