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Saturn's moon Mimas (The “Death Star” Moon) Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute


The great eye of Saturn's moon Mimas, a 130-kilometer-wide (80-mile) impact crater called Herschel, stares out from the battered moon. Several individual ringlets within the F ring are resolved here, and the small moon Atlas is also seen faintly outside the main rings.

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