Mimas by Virgo Stellar

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From the CD 11 Moons by Virgo Stellar
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With a giant crater covering a significant fraction of its surface, Saturn's gray moon Mimas resembles a real-life Death Star from the "Star Wars" movies.
The moon also has a strange interior that can't quite be explained yet from observations from the Cassini spacecraft. A 2014 study found that the libration (wobbling) of Mimas — caused by interactions between its rotation and its orbit around Saturn — was more pronounced in one particular spot. This suggests that the interior is not uniform in some way; perhaps there are different materials or densities, or perhaps its core is oval-shaped.
English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered his second moon of Saturn on Sept. 17, 1789, the seventh known satellite at the time. Herschel had spotted Enceladus less than a month before.

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