I won’t make the “that’s no moon, that’s a space station” remark, because every other blogger who’s ever posted a picture of Saturn’s moon Mimas has already said it. Even so, I gotta say that this thing looks enough like the Death Star to give me the willies. We’d better hope that really is just a big impact crater there in the upper hemisphere, and that this thing doesn’t someday start moving toward Earth under its own power…
Technical note, for those who may care: this image of Mimas against the backdrop of Saturn’s rings was taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Details can be found here.
I just hae to say…Mimas is 247 mi. in diameter…George Lucas (a long time ago said in, I’m sure, a long-forgotten interview…that the Death Star was around 200 mi. in diameter. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Perhaps the Death Star with a thick layer of dust would come out to about that size. Well, us your imagination.
There are no coincidences. I’m sure someday we’ll land a probe on Mimas and discover that it’s an ancient battlestation, built by beings long forgotten and stored in a safe Saturnian orbit for eons until they could return for it… 😉