the sea of Mimas has yet to crack its icy crust. That means that, while NASA's Cassini spacecraft was able to fly through plumes of ice spraying from Enceladus to confirm its oceans and even ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon.

Saturn’s innermost moon ‘Mimas’ might have been hiding an internal ocean. The evidence comes from NASA’s Cassini mission that explored Saturn and its moons for a decade. An internal ocean ...

Enceladus and Mimas. During a ring plane crossing in 1966, astronomers caught a glimpse of Saturn's outermost ring - now known as the 'E ring' - for the first time. This ring isn't as flat or defined ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the ...

Compared to Valles Marinensis, the Grand Canyon of Colorado is tiny, measuring 446 kilometers long, with a maximum width of ...

They exist on Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, three of Jupiter's largest moons, and Enceladus, Titan and Mimas at Saturn ... Not much is known about Ariel. NASA’s Voyager 2 photographed it ...

This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ago, making Mimas a prime candidate for studying early ocean formation ... Dec. 21, 2023 — A new photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space ...

Cassini Imaging Team/SSI/JPL/ESA/NASA Mimas: The "Star Wars" moon is a favourite among Saturn fans Knowing the mass was a key piece in the puzzle for researchers. From Cassini's other instruments ...