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red dog 1

(30,562 posts) Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:01 PM Mar 24

Clearest image ever captured of Saturn's moon, Mimas

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Clearest image ever captured of Saturn's moon, Mimas (Original Post) red dog 1 Mar 24 OP

Very cool picture chicoescuela Mar 24 #1

Looks like a golf ball! Deuxcents Mar 24 #2

And wouldn't you know it, True Dough Mar 24 #4

They rip them off! GreenWave Mar 24 #6

Unearthly! Easterncedar Mar 24 #3

Pockmarked by thousands of meteors over time. How do they not get pulled... brush Mar 24 #5

Was that picture taken by the Satellite of Love? LudwigPastorius Mar 25 #7

chicoescuela

(1,928 posts)

1. Very cool picture

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:03 PM

Mar 24

Deuxcents

(21,588 posts)

2. Looks like a golf ball!

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:04 PM

Mar 24

True Dough

(22,515 posts)

4. And wouldn't you know it,

Reply to Deuxcents (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:09 PM

Mar 24

Saturn has two-hundred-and-seventy-FORE moons!

GreenWave

(10,882 posts)

6. They rip them off!

Reply to True Dough (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 10:55 PM

Mar 24

Jupiter is trying to steal Mercury. Greedy!

Easterncedar

(4,146 posts)

3. Unearthly!

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:07 PM

Mar 24

brush

(59,420 posts)

5. Pockmarked by thousands of meteors over time. How do they not get pulled...

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:13 PM

Mar 24

in by the massive gravity pull of Saturn itself?

LudwigPastorius

(12,041 posts)

7. Was that picture taken by the Satellite of Love?

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 12:34 AM

Mar 25

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