{"id":9197,"date":"2010-02-17T21:55:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/mimas-up-close\/"},"modified":"2010-02-17T21:55:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:55:31","slug":"mimas-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/mimas-up-close.php","title":{"rendered":"Mimas Up Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tomsastroblog.com\/images\/cassinimimas020610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6d6d3_cassinimimas2021510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Mimas \"The Death Star\".  Click for a really closer look (see text).  Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute  <\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>On February 13, 2010 the Cassini spacecraft made a close pass at the Saturn moon Mimas.&nbsp; The image above was taken from about 70,600 km (~ 43,680 miles).<\/p><p>The main feature that just sticks out is the huge impact crater called Hershel, so named for William Herschel the discoverer of Mimas (on September 17, 1789).&nbsp; Mimas is not a very big moon and the crater Hershel is some 130 km (nearly 81 miles!) across.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s easy to see where the &ldquo;Death Star&rdquo; analogy comes from.<\/p><p>The Cassini site had a raw image of a portion of Hershel from just 18,017 km (11,195 mi), I did some processing on it and you can see it by clicking the image above.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimas \"The Death Star\". Click for a really closer look (see text). Credit: NASA\/JPL\/Space Science Institute On February 13, 2010 the Cassini spacecraft made a close pass at the Saturn moon Mimas.&nbsp; The image above was taken from about 70,600 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/mimas-up-close.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}