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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Herschel Crater on Mimas
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 13 Aug, 2022
| Image Credit Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA
Posted on 08/13/2022 2:07:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Mimas, small 400 kilometer-diameter moon of Saturn, is host to 130 kilometer-diameter Herschel crater, one of the larger impact craters in the entire Solar System. The robotic Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn in 2010 recorded this startling view of small moon and big crater while making a 10,000-kilometer record close pass by the diminutive icy world. Shown in contrast-enhanced false color, the image data reveal more clearly that Herschel's landscape is colored slightly differently from heavily cratered terrain nearby. The color difference could yield surface composition clues to the violent history of Mimas. Of course, an impact on Mimas any larger than the one that created the 130-kilometer Herschel might have destroyed the small moon of Saturn.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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posted on
08/13/2022 2:07:50 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
08/13/2022 2:08:24 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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posted on
08/13/2022 2:18:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: MtnClimber
I wonder what they figure it’s made of and how deep that is?
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posted on
08/13/2022 2:25:32 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
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To: MtnClimber
Now THAT is scary. If the Chicxulub impact, being as small relative to the size of the Earth as it was, caused the demise of the dinosaurs and a large percentage of other life, imagine what an impact by an object of the same proportion to the Earth as the object that struck Minas would do.
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posted on
08/13/2022 2:38:41 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: AFB-XYZ
If something like that hit DC then it could be a positive “impact” on Erf.
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posted on
08/13/2022 2:43:40 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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If something like that hit DC then it could be a positive “impact” on Erf. To quote Sean Bean (British actor), "Aye, there's truth in that".
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posted on
08/13/2022 3:01:33 PM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Stand up, or bend over)
To: MtnClimber
Herschel Walker stomped there, mid-juke.
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To: AFB-XYZ
Just look at the larger craters on the moon.
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posted on
08/13/2022 4:35:04 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
To: MtnClimber
Amazing that was not enough to split the little guy
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posted on
08/13/2022 4:40:48 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: MtnClimber
If that moon is water ice would certainly raise the level on this planet or drag it to mars and rehydrate to terraform.
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posted on
08/13/2022 4:49:55 PM PDT
by
going hot
(Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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posted on
08/13/2022 8:08:06 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
To: MtnClimber
Incredible! That was some impact.
Rather extraordinary that it didn't shatter the moon.
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posted on
08/14/2022 2:54:13 AM PDT
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jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
To: SauronOfMordor
Indeed. I take my scope out from time to time and Tycho always amazes me.
Seeing those gouges made by the object that hit it.
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posted on
08/14/2022 2:56:04 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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