Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn and its moons for 13 years, astronomers confirmed that Mimas has an ocean beneath an ice layer 20-30 km thick. They also estimated ...

"That's why Cassini did not find anything at the surface of Mimas." However, that doesn't mean Cassini, which spent 13 years in Saturn's system before purposefully crashing into the gas giant in ...

Cassini studied Saturn and its moons for more than a decade before crashing into the planet in 2017. By taking a closer look at Mimas' orbit, they were able to find evidence pointing to a hidden ...

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.

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 ...

This spectacular and disorienting maze of lines is a Cassini portrait of the gas giant Saturn, its rings and its small, icy moon Mimas. The rings cast dark shadows across Saturn’s northern ...

Feb. 7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ...

shows the diminutive moon Mimas transiting across Saturn's northern latitudes, with long shadows cast by the planet's rings. Michael Benson created the image using data returned by NASA's Cassini ...

it is instanced in the divisions of the rings of Saturn, Cassini's division and Encke's division being both due to this cause. Now conceive a particle thus acted on by Mimas let us say ...

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 ...

But NASA 's Cassini mission, which orbited and studied Saturn for over a decade, detected an unexpected oscillation in Mimas's rotation. As it spins on its axis, Mimas wobbles slightly.

The French-led team analyzed changes in Mimas’ orbit and rotation ... findings on observations by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which observed Saturn and its more than 140 moons for more than ...