Impact crater on Mimas

Massive impact crater on Saturn's moon Mimas
Massive impact crater (Herschel) on Saturn’s moon Mimas

Dr. Paul Schenk from the Lunar and Planetary Institute used data collected by Cassini spacecraft over its first ten years of exploring Saturn and its moons. In this color mosaic of Saturn’s 396 kilometer wide moon Mimas, we can see the large impact crater which is called Herschel, after the German-British astronomer William Herschel who discovered it in 1789. The colors shown in this composite global mosaics are enhanced, relative to human vision, extending into the ultraviolet and infrared range.

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