Mimas: cratered surface			PIA02267
			This image of Saturn's moon Mimas was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 and shows the heavily and uniformly cratered surface of the satellite. The photograph, taken at a range of 208,000 km , shows features as small as about five km.
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Image Credit: JPL, NASA
Topography is best seen along the terminator where it is enhanced by the low sun angle. The apparent crater density decrease toward the left of the picture is not real and results from a change in sun angle.		A long, narrow trough about five kilometers across is seen to cross from lower limb to the center of the image where it terminates. A second trough originates near the center and extends to the upper limb, where it appears to branch into a series of smaller troughs.
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