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red dog 1

(32,339 posts) Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:01 PM Mar 2025

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 2025 OP

Very cool picture chicoescuela Mar 2025 #1

Looks like a golf ball! Deuxcents Mar 2025 #2

And wouldn't you know it, True Dough Mar 2025 #4

They rip them off! GreenWave Mar 2025 #6

Unearthly! Easterncedar Mar 2025 #3

Pockmarked by thousands of meteors over time. How do they not get pulled... brush Mar 2025 #5

Was that picture taken by the Satellite of Love? LudwigPastorius Mar 2025 #7

chicoescuela

(2,587 posts)

1. Very cool picture

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:03 PM

Mar 2025

Deuxcents

(25,333 posts)

2. Looks like a golf ball!

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:04 PM

Mar 2025

True Dough

(25,610 posts)

4. And wouldn't you know it,

Reply to Deuxcents (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:09 PM

Mar 2025

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

GreenWave

(12,211 posts)

6. They rip them off!

Reply to True Dough (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 09:55 PM

Mar 2025

Jupiter is trying to steal Mercury. Greedy!

Easterncedar

(5,405 posts)

3. Unearthly!

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 08:07 PM

Mar 2025

brush

(61,033 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, 08:13 PM

Mar 2025

in by the massive gravity pull of Saturn itself?

LudwigPastorius

(14,037 posts)

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

Reply to red dog 1 (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2025, 11:34 PM

Mar 2025

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