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Herschel Crater in 3-D

Target Name:  Mimas
Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
Instrument:  Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle
Produced by:  NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Copyright: NASA Copyright Free Policy
Date Taken:  2010-02-13

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a three-dimensional view of the large Herschel Crater on Saturn's moon Mimas during its closest-ever flyby of the moon.

Herschel Crater is 130 kilometers (80 miles) wide and covers most of the bottom center of this image. Scientists continue to study this impact basin and its surrounding terrain (see PIA12569 and PIA12571).

This 3-D view is a color composite mosaic made from 14 different black and white images that were taken from slightly different viewing angles. The images were re-projected to a simple cylindrical projection. The images were combined so that the viewer's left and right eye, respectively and separately, see a left and right image of the black and white stereo pair when viewed through red-blue glasses.

This view is centered on terrain at 11 degrees north latitude, 122 degrees west longitude. This view looks toward the hemisphere of Mimas that leads in its orbit around Saturn. Mimas is 396 kilometers (246 miles) across. North on Mimas is up. The images were taken in visible light with Cassini's spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Feb. 13, 2010. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 21,000 kilometers (13,000 miles) from Mimas. Image scale is 92 meters (302 feet) per pixel.

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