The Cassini Saturn probe never seems to disappoint. This latest image is another stunner:
That image shows Saturn's weird moon Mimas, which is uncannily like the Death Star, floating in front of Saturn's magnificent rings. Cassini was pretty far out when it took this image; nearly twice as far from Mimas as the Earth is from the Moon. I've written about Mimas before, but while poking around the web to find out more info just now, I found out that Mimas is not even close to being a sphere! Check this out:
That's amazing! I had no clue it was so ovoid. This image exaggerates the effect somewhat, the top part of the moon as seen here is in shadow, so it makes Mimas look more egg-shaped than it really is. But the equatorial diameter is 10% larger than the polar diameter, which is a lot, given its 400 kilometer ...
