Herschel Crater

Herschel Crater is 130 km wide, covering a large portion of Saturn’s moon Mimas. The moon itself is only 396 km wide.

The dayside terrain seen here is on leading hemisphere of Mimas. North on Mimas is up and rotated 1 degree to the left in this image which was taken in visible light by the Cassini spacecraft in 2010.

Image Credit: NASA

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