Cassini Sees A Dot Against The Dark

As if wobbly to get our fame, Saturn's moon Mimas is to be found opposed the dejection of Saturn's ornaments, quite good on bleak. As we go out of business summer in Saturn's northern hemisphere, the ornaments cast ever corpulent dimness on the planet. When a reflectivity of about 96 percent, Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometers with a leg on each side of) appears quite good opposed the less-reflective Saturn. This viewpoint looks near the wispy side of the ornaments from about 10 degrees added the ringplane.

The image was obsessed following the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 13, 2014 by the use of a obscure clean which preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers.

The viewpoint was acquired at a distance of on 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) from Saturn and on 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Mimas. Symbol alternative is 67 miles (108 kilometers) per pixel at Saturn and 60 miles (97 kilometers) per pixel at Mimas.

The Cassini-Huygens pitch is a kibbutz project of NASA, the European Scope Group and the Italian Scope Group. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a estrangement of the California Host of Equipment in Pasadena, manages the pitch for NASA's Science Remit Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were assumed, grown and assembled at JPL. The imaging assistant is based at the Scope Science Host, Pit, Colo.

Credit: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov