Mimas, also designated Saturn I, is the seventh-largest natural satellite of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 396.4 kilometres or 246.3 miles, Mimas is...

(/ˈhɜːrʃəl/) is the largest impact crater on the Saturnian moon Mimas. It is located on Mimas's leading hemisphere, centered on the equator at 112° longitude...

discovered Mimas in 1789. That name was chosen before the International Astronomical Union set a guideline for naming geological features on Mimas. Mimas' chasmata...

of Saturn's gravity. Mimas has a large impact crater one-third its diameter, Herschel, situated on its leading hemisphere Mimas has no known past or present...

Mimas or mimas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mimas is a moon of Saturn marked by a giant crater on its surface. Mimas may also refer to: Mimas (Giant)...

moons of Saturn (Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Iapetus) are no longer in equilibrium. In addition to not being in equilibrium, Mimas and Tethys have...

vary seasonally, the discovery of Titania and Oberon (moons of Uranus) and Enceladus and Mimas (moons of Saturn). Herschel was made a Knight of the Royal...

known—eventually settled among Jupiter's moons Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede, and Saturn's moons Dione, Enceladus, and Mimas. The Outers have survived by using...

primaries (their planets) than in the direction of their motion. Saturn's moon Mimas, for example, has a major axis 9% greater than its polar axis and 5% greater...

concentrations. These bulk properties are similar to Saturn's moon Mimas, though Mimas is smaller, less dense, and more oblate. A study published in 2024...

been taken) Mimas (moon of Saturn) Herschel 139 km (86 mi) 396 km 35% Tethys (moon of Saturn) Odysseus 445 km (277 mi) 1,060 km 42% Dione (moon of Saturn)...

is also designated Saturn V (being the fifth major moon going outward from the planet, after Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, and Dione). Astronomers fell into...

and moons in the solar system have been colonised for habitation and mining purposes. Having ended up in a supply port on Saturn's orbiting moon Mimas after...

Once Mimas and Enceladus were discovered in 1789 by William Herschel, the numbering scheme was extended to Saturn VII by bumping the older five moons up...

playbook to stop them. In spite of those tricks, they land on Mimas, Saturn's innermost moon, and set up camp. Immediately Dr. Rhodes takes one of the rocketship's...

satellites had been discovered, the innermost known satellite being Mimas. Asimov describes Mimas as being 340 miles in diameter, but its diameter is now known...

Saturn that orbits out past Saturn's ring system, between the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus. It was discovered in 2004, though it wasn't until 2012 that...

to cause periodic extinctions on Earth "Death Star", nickname of Mimas (moon), a moon of Saturn which coincidentally resembles the fictional Star Wars...

Zeus burning Mimas "to ashes" with his thunderbolt. In the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, and the Gigantomachia by Claudian, Mimas was killed by...

Enceladus (moon of Saturn) Miranda (moon of Uranus) Hygiea (belt asteroid) Proteus (moon of Neptune) Mimas (moon of Saturn) Hyperion (moon of Saturn)...

Herschel (son of William Herschel, discoverer of two other Saturnian moons, Mimas and Enceladus), in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations...

System. The only larger moon known to be irregular in shape is Neptune's moon Proteus. Hyperion has about 15% of the mass of Mimas, the least massive known...

and Mimas. It orbits at 238,000 km (148,000 mi) from Saturn's center and 180,000 km (110,000 mi) from its cloud tops, between the orbits of Mimas and...

particles at this location orbit twice for every orbit of the moon Mimas. The resonance causes Mimas' pulls on these ring particles to accumulate, destabilizing...

or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded; of these, all are covered by a crust of ice except for Earth's Moon and...

of Saturn. It is one of three small moons known as the Alkyonides that lie between the orbits of the larger Mimas and Enceladus. It is also designated...

Prometheus and the moons approach to within about 1,400 kilometres (870 mi). Pandora also has a 3:2 mean-motion resonance with Mimas. From its very low...

thought to be similarly smooth as Methone. It orbits between Janus and Mimas within Saturn's G Ring. Images of Aegaeon were taken by Cassini on 15 August...

student. As Whitey qualifies, Junior, now the brains behind SpaceHome's Mimas-based efforts to recover the last artifact, stages a strike—Whitey must...

is a very small natural satellite of Saturn lying between the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus. It is also known as Saturn XLIX; its provisional designation...