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Mimas

Mimas, Saturn’s tiny moon, looks like a snowy Death Star with its massive Herschel crater, captured in stunning detail. This 396-kilometer-wide icy moon, discovered in 1789, has a deep, uniform crater from an asteroid impact, similar to our Moon’s craters.

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