Presented here is a cartographic map sheet which forms a high-resolution
Mimas atlas, a project of the Cassini Imaging Team.
Mimas, as imaged by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s, has a very
large, distinguishing crater that makes it look like the "Death Star." As
shown in this map, that crater is named Herschel.
The map sheets form a three-quadrangle series covering the entire surface
of Mimas at a nominal scale of 1:1,500,000. The map data was acquired by
the Cassini imaging experiment. The mean radius of Mimas used for
projection of the maps is 198.2 kilometers (123.2 miles). Names for
features have been approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
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.
