#mimas

[spacewonder19]

Mimas, the closest moon to Saturn ©

[spaceexp]

Mimas, Saturn’s Moon captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.

[solarballsmug]

We need to put a bunch of green LED lights on Mimas’ surface so he can look like the Death Star.

how did he get a comically large glowstick anyway? -looks at Saturn-

[jameswebb-discoveries]

Stark beauty on the edge of the known.

A wide view from the rugged surface of Saturn's inner moon, Mimas, shows the solar system in sharp contrast.

From left to right:

Tethys and Enceladus in partial phases.

Minor moons Janus and Epimetheus as bright points.

Colossal Saturn, its main rings catching the light.

The distant Sun, a piercing point of energy.

The shadow of the rings falling across Saturn's night side.

This is how the sky would appear if you were standing on Mimas in this realistically generated image.

Learn 100 facts about Saturn.

[progradevector]

Since the Moon has been obnoxiously bright and inhibiting my ability to do precision photometry and deep sky imaging, I instead tried some planetary photography. Here's Saturn and a few of its moons! It turned out a lot better than I expected. I was planning on hitting Jupiter after but it clouded over.

From left to right, there's Rhea and Dione, two somewhat unremarkable icy moons, Enceladus, whose fractured crust hides a warm salty water ocean underneath, the famous two-toned moon Iapteus high above, tiny Mimas just near the rings, and distant Titan, shrouded in haze hiding methane seas.

It's actually almost impossible to photograph both Saturn and the moons at the same time. Any photo long enough to bring out the faint moons would leave Saturn itself overexposed and blown out. Instead, the trick is to first image Saturn at the proper exposure, then a longer exposure to capture the Moons, and carefully mask out and replace the overexposed planet with the properly exposed one to create the finished composite.

[daintybomb]

Saturn's little moon Mimas gliding against Saturn's blue, relatively cloudless atmosphere, and the rings' shadows. Image by the Cassini orbiter, 2005

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

[sapocipo]

Guys did you know that Saturn has a moon named Mimas that looks like Star wars' death star?

Also did you know that in greek mythology Mimas (Mimos or Mimon are other variants of his name) is one of the giants and he fought against Aphrodite?

On my knees. Please PLEASE someone draw this fight with lightsabers. If nobody does it I will

[livingforstars]

Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways - May 24th, 1997.

"Saturn's rings are actually very thin. This picture from the Hubble Space Telescope was taken on August 6th, 1995, when the rings lined up sideways as seen from Earth. Saturn's largest moon Titan is seen on the left, and Titan's shadow can be seen on Saturn's cloud tops! Titan itself looks a brownish colour because of its thick atmosphere. Four other moons of Saturn can be seen just above the ring plane, which are, from left to right: Mimas, Tethys, Janus, and Enceladus. If you look carefully, you will note that the dark band across the planet is actually the shadow of the rings, and is slightly displaced from the real rings - which are best seen away from the planet. Saturn's rings are not solid - they are composed of ice chunks, which range in size from a grain of sand to a house."