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Saturn’s Moon Mimas, ... Jupiter’s Europa and Ganymede, and Saturn‘s Titan and Enceladus. Dr Nick Cooper, honorary research fellow at Queen Mary University of London, said: “Mimas is a ...
Saturn's moon Mimas is known for its uncanny resemblance to the dreaded Death Star in the original "Star Wars" movie. ... alongside Saturn's Enceladus and Titan, and Jupiter's Europa and Ganymede ...
Mimas, also designated Saturn I, is the seventh-largest natural satellite of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 396.4 kilometres or 246.3 miles, Mimas is the smallest astronomical body known to be roughly rounded in shape due to its own gravity.
An annotated picture of Saturn's many moons captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Shown in the image are Dione, Enceladus, Epimetheus, Prometheus, Mimas, Rhea, Janus, Tethys and Titan. The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to the enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.
Astronomers studying Mimas, one of Saturn's smaller moons, say it's likely hiding a giant ocean beneath its crust.. Using data gathered from the Cassini probe, which studied Saturn and its moons ...
Aegaeon is the smallest known moon of Saturn outside of the rings and has an extremely elongated shape, measuring 1.4 km × 0.5 km × 0.4 km (0.87 mi × 0.31 mi × 0.25 mi) in size. [9] Measurements of its mass show that Aegaeon has a very low density, likely due to a highly porous and icy interior structure. [ 5 ]
This is Mimas, the smallest of Saturn's major moons. Other than its giant impact crater, scientists thought Mimas was a rather boring piece of cold rock. Now, a new study says Mimas is much more ...
Below Titan, near the ring plane and to the left is the moon Mimas, casting a much smaller shadow onto Saturn’s equatorial cloud tops. Farther to the left, and off Saturn’s disk, is the bright moom Dione, and the fainter moon Enceledus. Solar eclipses on Saturn occur when the natural satellites of Saturn pass in front of the Sun as seen ...