Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! One of Saturn’s moons looks a lot like an infamous planet-destroying battle station from science fiction, but astronomers have some very real theories about the complex crater that gives Mimas its unique feature.
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Sources:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia12568.html
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Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mimas_Cassini.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Herschel01.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA19058-SaturnMoon-Enceladus-PossibleHydrothermalActivity-ArtistConcept-20150311.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E_ring_with_Enceladus.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meteor_Crater_-_Arizona.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craterstructure.gif
