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Shadows cast across Mimas' defining feature, Herschel Crater, provide an indication of the size of the crater's towering walls and central peak.
Named after the icy moon's discoverer, astronomer William Herschel, the crater stretches 139 kilometers wide - almost one-third of the diameter
of Mimas (396 kilometers) itself. Large impact craters often have peaks in their center. Herschel's peak stands nearly as tall as Mount Everest
on Earth.
This view looks toward the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Mimas. North on Mimas is up and rotated 21 degrees to the left. The image was taken with
the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 22, 2016 using a combination of spectral filters which preferentially admits wavelengths of
ultraviolet light centered at 338 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 185 000 kilometers from Mimas and at a Sun-
Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 20 degrees. Image scale is 1 kilometer per pixel.
