The Cassini spacecraft looks toward the high north on heavily cratered
Mimas. The unmistakable Herschel impact crater is seen at lower left.
Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Mimas (397 kilometers,
or 247 miles across).
The moon's north pole is up and tilted slightly toward Cassini. The image
was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera
on March 11, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately
795,000 kilometers (494,000 miles) from Mimas and at a
Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 88 degrees. Image scale is 5
kilometers (3 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.