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Mimas

Mimas is Saturn’s innermost round moon, marked by a crater a third as wide as the moon itself, about 396 km across.

Key facts

Diameter

396 km

Goes round

Saturn

See it from here

Not by eye: Mimas is magnitude 12.9 and hugs Saturn, so it takes a large telescope and a steady night.

How the map draws it

Its colours come from infrared, green and ultraviolet pictures, toned down toward what an eye would see · lit as a camera exposed for its own sunlight would show it · seen from far off it is a light at its computed brightness: the glow is how a camera records a point too bright to resolve.