Mimas Aslant

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Caption:

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.

Background Info:

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 .

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