Saturn's Moon Mimas
Photograph
Saturn's Moon Mimas
November 12, 1980
Chromogenic development print
Image: 7 13/16 × 7 5/8 in. (19.8 × 19.4 cm)
Paper: 4 1/16 × 3 1/8 in. (10.3 × 8 cm)
Matted: 17 × 14 × 1/8 in. (43.2 × 35.6 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of NASA
Inscriptions verso (applied label, typed): PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE/JET PROPULSION LABORATORY/CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, 91109. TELEPHONE: (213) 354-5011/PHOTO CAPTION (TOP) P-23112 C/BW/S-1-52/Nov. 15, 1980/ The surface of Saturn's satellite Mimas is shown to be/ heavily cratered -- a record of the bombardment that occured/ throughout the solar system in its early history some 4 billion/ years ago. This Voyager 1 photograph, taken on Nov. 12, 1980/ from a range of 129,000 kilometers (80,000 miles) shows craters/ as small as two kilometers (one mile) across. The moon is/ approximately 385 kilometers (240 miles) in diameter. The/ Voyager Project is managed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. / ####
