Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater

By |2025-01-12T08:09:08-05:00January 12th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest round moons. Analysis indicates that a slightly larger impact would have destroyed Mimas entirely. The huge crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about [...]