Discovered by William Herschel in 1789, Saturn’s icy moon Mimas is 246 miles in diameter and orbits just outside the visible rings. It has an enormous impact crater, discovered in 1980 and named in ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel crater might make it look li ...