Mimas's Crater Herschel head on
Mimas's Crater Herschel head on
15 February 2005
Saturn's moon Mimas has many large craters, but its Herschel crater dwarfs them all, as seen in this image taken by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft on 16 January 2005.
This large crater is 130 kilometres wide and has a prominent central peak, seen here almost exactly on the terminator. This crater is the moon's most prominent feature, and the impact that formed it probably nearly destroyed Mimas.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a co-operative project of NASA, ESA and ASI, the Italian space agency.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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