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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                  2022 August 13   
      
                             Herschel Crater on Mimas   
              Image Credit Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA   
      
      Explanation: Mimas, small 400 kilometer-diameter moon of Saturn, is   
      host to 130 kilometer-diameter Herschel crater, one of the larger   
      impact craters in the entire Solar System. The robotic Cassini   
      spacecraft orbiting Saturn in 2010 recorded this startling view of   
      small moon and big crater while making a 10,000-kilometer record close   
      pass by the diminutive icy world. Shown in contrast-enhanced false   
      color, the image data reveal more clearly that Herschel's landscape is   
      colored slightly differently from heavily cratered terrain nearby. The   
      color difference could yield surface composition clues to the violent   
      history of Mimas. Of course, an impact on Mimas any larger than the one   
      that created the 130-kilometer Herschel might have destroyed the small   
      moon of Saturn.   
      
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