This tilted look at Mimas highlights the many deep craters on the icy
moon's trailing side.
North on Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across) is up and rotated 44
degrees to the right.
The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on June 12, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance
of approximately 614,000 kilometers (382,000 miles) from Mimas and at a
Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 15 degrees. Image scale is 4
kilometers (2 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/home/index.cfm. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at http://ciclops.org.