This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken
during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps
in Cassini's coverage.
The moon's large, distinguishing crater, Herschel, is seen on the map at
left.
The map is an equidistant (simple cylindrical) projection and has a scale
of 432 meters (1,417 feet) per pixel at the equator. The mean radius of
Mimas used for projection of this map is 198.2 kilometers (123.2 miles).
The resolution of the map is 8 pixels per degree. This mosaic map is an
update to the version released in January 2008 (see PIA08344).
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.
