"Gray Mimas appears to hover above the colorful rings. The large crater seen on the right side of the moon is named for William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789. Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired on Sept. 9, 2007 at a distance of approximately 3.151 million km (1.958 million mi) from Mimas. Image scale is 19 km (12 mi) per pixel. (NASA/JPL/SSI)
Check out all the other unbelievably cool and high res Saturn photos taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/cassinis_continued_mission.html
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