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Saturn's moon Mimas is known for its uncanny resemblance to the dreaded Death Star in the original "Star Wars" movie. Astronomers said on Wednesday that data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft ...
Scripps News Staff. February 7, 2024 at 7:38 PM. Saturn's moon Mimas, as captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Astronomers studying Mimas, one of Saturn's smaller moons, ... The Today Show.
Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of a vast, young ocean beneath the icy exterior of Saturn’s Death Star lookalike mini moon. The French-led team analyzed changes in Mimas’ orbit ...
The similarity between Mimas's appearance and the Death Star in Star Wars due to the large size of Herschel has often been noted, both in the press and in NASA/JPL press releases. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This is a coincidence, however, as the crater's similarities were not discovered until 1980 after Voyager 1 gained line of sight, three years after the ...
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.
S/2004 S 13 is about 6 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Saturn at an average distance of 18,486,000 kilometres in about 938 days, at an inclination of 167.0° to the ecliptic, in a retrograde direction and with an eccentricity of 0.271. [2] [4] This moon was considered lost [5] until its recovery was announced on 12 October 2022. [2]
Saturn’s Moon Mimas, known as the “Death Star”, has revealed a new secret.. A “remarkably young” ocean appears to be hiding under the icy, cratered surface of the world that led to it ...
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 ]