Posted on 01/12/2025 12:17:57 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest round moons. Analysis indicates that a slightly larger impact would have destroyed Mimas entirely. The huge crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about 130 kilometers and is featured here. Mimas' low mass produces a surface gravity just strong enough to create a spherical body but weak enough to allow such relatively large surface features. Mimas is made of mostly water ice with a smattering of rock - so it is accurately described as a big dirty snowball. The featured image was taken during the closest-ever flyby of the robot spacecraft Cassini past Mimas in 2010 while in orbit around Saturn.
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That’s no moon. Oh wait, yes it is.
Wow.
Plenty of water for Mars.
Enough water to cover mars about 10,000 feet deep in water over the entire planet.
Just need to move as much of that water as needed to the Mars surface...
Could probably settle for 1% of that (about 100 feet deep on the average...
Lots of resources in space. We just need to access them.
Anyone for a “new earth”?
“Anyone for a new earth?”
If it were possible: Move mars and or Venus into the habitable zone orbit. Add water from mimas onto Mars. We could have a couple more Earths to colonize.
Seven years before his discovery of Mimas, Herschel discovered the seventh planet. Some people wanted to name that planet “Herschel.” In retrospect that might have been a good idea.
Perhaps, but then think about all the sophomoric jokes that would never have been cracked. It's hard to compete with Uranus for joke fodder.
I think those sophomoric jokes only work in English. Non-Anglophones are missing out.
Sometimes I think God is playing with us just for fun!..................
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