Mimas look much like our Moon, with a heavily cratered surface. It didn’t host any crisscrossing lines or broken pieces like Europa. And it certainly wasn’t spewing geysers like Enceladus.

Mimas looks much like our moon, with a heavily cratered surface. It didn’t host any crisscrossing lines or broken pieces like Europa. And it certainly wasn’t spewing geysers like Enceladus.

Mimas’ surface looks dramatically different from that of Jupiter’s moon Europa and another Saturnian moon, Enceladus. Both Europa and Enceladus are thought to harbor hidden oceans.

With its 123-mile radius, Mimas is Saturn’s smallest and innermost moon, and due to its tiny size, it does not hold a round enough shape to look like a typical moon.

Saturn’s moon Mimas may have an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust, suggests a recent study. Icy moons with oceans locked away beneath miles of ice are turning out to be fairly common ...

But scientists said on Wednesday that underneath the unassuming moon's icy shell is a vast hidden ocean that has many of the ingredients necessary to host primitive alien life.

Saturn's moon Mimas has a giant impact crater, named Hershel, that stretches across a third of its surface and makes it resemble the "Death Star" from Star Wars. NASA / JPL / Space Science ...

WASHINGTON - Saturn's small moon Mimas seems an unlikely suspect in the hunt for life in Earth's backyard -- it is probably best known for looking like the "Death Star" in the Star Wars films. But ...

Paris – Saturn’s small moon Mimas seems an unlikely suspect in the hunt for life in Earth’s backyard – it is probably best known for looking like the “Death Star” in the Star Wars films.

Saturn's small moon Mimas seems an unlikely suspect in the hunt for life in Earth's backyard -- it is probably best known for looking like the "Death Star" in the Star Wars films.