Space gadget Cassini finds the Death Star!
By Phillip Torrone 
posted Jul 28th 2004 7:23AM
posted Jul 28th 2004 7:23AM
Soon after going into orbit around Saturn, the Cassini space probe returned its best look yet at the heavily
cratered moon Mimas (which has a diameter of 398 kilometers, 247 miles across). The enormous crater at the top of this
image, named Herschel, is about 130 kilometers (80 miles) wide and 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep, and has earned Mimas
the nickname "The Death Star".
Luke, you're our only hope.
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It's a space station
Voyager found it first, a many many years ago. (He said, pedantically.)
"That's no moon..."
I was hoping that someone would remember that this moon was photographed a while back. I'm actually surprised that no one made comments like this back then. :/
Negative geek points for getting a simple Star Wars quote wrong! Repeat after me: "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope."
The comment WAS made back then ... it's just that now we have a NEXT GENERATION ... ;-)
"that´s no moon...
it´s a space station?"
"It´s too big to be a space station!"
"I´ve got a bad feeling about this..."