Saturn's Moon Mimas


Image obtained by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft of Saturn's moon Mimas. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Images taken with red, green and blue filters were combined to create this color view. The images were obtained with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Nov. 7, 2004, at a distance of million kilometers ( million miles) from Saturn. The image scale is 22 kilometers (14 miles) per pixel.


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