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English: Pictured above is a busy vista of moons and rings taken at Saturn

It is named after Mimas, a son of Gaia in Greek mythology, and is also designated Saturn I.

Astrophysicists of today are trying to figure.

Mimas shows a surface craters, Herschel is a huge crater in the leading hemisphere of the Saturnian moon Mimas, The lunar crater Herschel is in the centre of this image, with Ptolemaeus to its right. Coordinates 5.7°S 2.1°W Coordinates: 5.7°S 2.1°W DiameteR 41 km Depth 3.8 km Colongitude 3° at sunrise Eponym William Herschel.

Smallest and innermost of the major regular moons of Saturn.

Mimas and another Saturn moon, Rhea, have been called "the most heavily cratered body in the Solar System." Mimas would probably have been more heavily cratered except, being closer to Saturn,also you can see planet mercury near the sun. Sir William Herschel 1738 -1822. The founder of modern stellar astronomy, his discovery of Uranus in 1781 was the first identification of a planet in modern times.
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