Galerie de photos de Mimas, satellite de la planète Saturne

<h1>PIA10433: Blasted by Impacts</h1><div class="PIA10433" lang="en" style="width:676px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>Deep craters riddle the pulverized, icy surface of Saturn's moon Mimas.</p><p>This view looks toward southern latitudes on Mimas from a vantage point 47 degrees below the moon's equator. North is towards the top of the image and rotated 40 degrees to the right.</p><p>The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 16, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 217,000 kilometers (135,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 83 degrees. Image scale is 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10433" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10433: Blasted by Impacts sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10433: Blasted by Impacts sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10433: Blasted by Impacts
<h1>PIA10467: Full of Holes</h1><div class="PIA10467" lang="en" style="width:800px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>The sun's low angle near the terminator throws the craters of Mimas into stark relief. </p><p>This view looks toward high northern latitudes on Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) from a position 72 degrees north of the moon's equator. The north pole is in darkness at center.</p><p>The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 4, 2008. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 153,000 kilometers (95,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 106 degrees. Image scale is 918 meters (3,011 feet) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10467" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10467: Full of Holes sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10467: Full of Holes sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10467: Full of Holes
<h1>PIA10469: Shadow Cap</h1><div class="PIA10469" lang="en" style="width:798px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>The shadow of Saturn's rings sits upon the northern hemisphere of Mimas like a dark cap. In this Cassini spacecraft view, which looks toward high northern latitudes on Mimas, the moon is just grazing the shadow of the rings.</p><p>The two distinct shadow regions seen here are the penumbra and the much darker umbra. An observer within the penumbral region on Mimas would have their view of the Sun partly blocked by the rings. For a viewer within the umbral region, the rings would completely cover the Sun. However, since the rings are not opaque, the Sun would still be dimly visible.</p><p>The image was brightened to reveal faint details within the eclipsed region, illuminated dimly by sunlight filtering through the rings.</p><p>Another view, <a href="/catalog/PIA10467">PIA10467</a>, was acquired a few minutes prior to this image, and shows a nearly identical Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) before the rings' shadow obscured the surface. </p><p>The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 4, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 143,000 kilometers (89,000 miles) from Mimas and from about 67 degrees above the moon's equator. The Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle in the image is 106 degrees. Image scale is 856 meters (2,808 feet) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10469" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10469: Shadow Cap sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10469: Shadow Cap sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10469: Shadow Cap
<h1>PIA10484: Mimas in Profile</h1><div class="PIA10484" lang="en" style="width:800px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>The Cassini spacecraft spies the icy moon Mimas on the far side of Saturn's rings. The large crater Herschel gives the moon a flattened profile on its leading hemisphere, at left.</p><p>This view looks toward the Saturn-facing side of Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across). North is up and rotated 30 degrees to the left.</p><p>This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 2 degrees above the ringplane. The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Aug. 22, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.3 million kilometers (831,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 16 degrees. Image scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10484" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10484: Mimas in Profile sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10484: Mimas in Profile sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10484: Mimas in Profile
<h1>PIA10504: Mimas Above the Haze</h1><div class="PIA10504" lang="en" style="width:800px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>Mimas hangs above the hazy skies of Saturn.</p><p>This view looks toward the leading hemisphere of Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across). North is up and rotated 25 degrees to the left.</p><p>The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 20, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 727 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1 million kilometers (638,000 miles) from Mimas. Image scale is 6 kilometers (4 miles) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10504" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10504: Mimas Above the Haze sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10504: Mimas Above the Haze sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10504: Mimas Above the Haze
<h1>PIA10510: Features Distorted</h1><div class="PIA10510" lang="en" style="width:800px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>Mimas emerges from behind hazy Saturn. The rings appear distorted near the planet as their image passes through the upper atmosphere.</p><p>The limb of Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) is slightly flattened on the left side by the rim of the large crater Herschel (see <a href="/catalog/PIA08278">PIA08278</a>).</p><p>This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 9 degrees above the ringplane.Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 30, 2007 at a distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Mimas. Image scale is 10 kilometers (6 miles) per pixel on Mimas.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10510" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10510: Features Distorted sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10510: Features Distorted sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10510: Features Distorted
<h1>PIA10517: Fore!</h1><div class="PIA10517" lang="en" style="width:502px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>Mimas's lit crescent has the appearance of a golf ball thanks to its heavily cratered surface.</p><p>The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Oct. 24, 2008 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 189,000 kilometers (117,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 136 degrees. Image scale is about 1 kilometer (3,707 feet) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10517" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10517: Fore! sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10517: Fore! sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10517: Fore!
<h1>PIA10540: Mimas Before Saturn</h1><div class="PIA10540" lang="en" style="width:800px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>Against a background of muted atmospheric bands in Saturn's northern hemisphere, Mimas forges onward in its orbit around the Ringed Planet.</p><p>Aside from the large crater Herschel (139 kilometers, or 87 miles across), all features on Mimas are named after people and places in Arthurian legend or the legends of the Titans. In fact, the largest crater near the terminator in this view is named Arthur (64 kilometers, or 40 miles across).</p><p>The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 26, 2008 at a distance of approximately 915,000 kilometers (569,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 28 degrees. Image scale is 5 kilometers (3 miles) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10540" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10540: Mimas Before Saturn sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10540: Mimas Before Saturn sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10540: Mimas Before Saturn
<h1>PIA10548: Rebel Base in Range</h1><div class="PIA10548" lang="en" style="width:800px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>Gray Mimas appears to hover above the colorful rings. </p><p>The large crater seen on the right side of the moon is named for William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789.</p><p>Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this full color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 9, 2007 at a distance of approximately 3.151 million kilometers (1.958 million miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 34 degrees. Image scale is 19 kilometers (12 miles) per pixel.</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10548" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA10548: Rebel Base in Range sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA10548: Rebel Base in Range sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA10548: Rebel Base in Range
<h1>PIA11118: Map of Mimas - June 2008</h1><div class="PIA11118" lang="en" style="width:800px;text-align:left;margin:auto;background-color:#000;padding:10px;max-height:150px;overflow:auto;"><p>This global map of Saturn's moon Mimas was created using images taken during Cassini spacecraft flybys, with Voyager images filling in the gaps in Cassini's coverage. </p><p>The moon's large, distinguishing crater, Herschel, is seen on the map at left.</p><p>The map is an equidistant (simple cylindrical) projection and has a scale of 432 meters (1,417 feet) per pixel at the equator. The mean radius of Mimas used for projection of this map is 198.2 kilometers (123.2 miles). The resolution of the map is 8 pixels per degree. This mosaic map is an update to the version released in January 2008 (see <a href="/catalog/PIA08344">PIA08344</a>).</p><p>The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.</p><p>For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit <a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov" class="external free" target="wpext">http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/</a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at <a href="http://ciclops.org" class="external free" target="wpext">http://ciclops.org</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11118" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;" title="Voir l'image PIA11118: Map of Mimas - June 2008 sur le site de la NASA">Voir l'image PIA11118: Map of Mimas - June 2008 sur le site de la NASA.</a></div>
PIA11118: Map of Mimas - June 2008
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