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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="ميماس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ميماس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(satelite)" title="Mimas (satelite) – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Mimas (satelite)" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_(%D9%82%D9%85%D8%B1)" title="میماس (قمر) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="میماس (قمر)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(o%C4%93-chhe%E2%81%BF)" title="Mimas (oē-chheⁿ) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Mimas (oē-chheⁿ)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA)" title="Мімас (спадарожнік) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Мімас (спадарожнік)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA)" title="Мімас (спадарожнік) – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Мімас (спадарожнік)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81_(%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%8A%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)" title="Мимас (спътник) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мимас (спътник)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(sat%C3%A8l%C2%B7lit)" title="Mimas (satèl·lit) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mimas (satèl·lit)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(m%C4%9Bs%C3%ADc)" title="Mimas (měsíc) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mimas (měsíc)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Mimas" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Corsu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(lloeren)" title="Mimas (lloeren) – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Mimas (lloeren)" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(m%C3%A5ne)" title="Mimas (måne) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Mimas (måne)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(Mond)" title="Mimas (Mond) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mimas (Mond)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(kuu)" title="Mimas (kuu) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Mimas (kuu)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%AF%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%82_(%CE%B4%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%85%CF%86%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82)" title="Μίμας (δορυφόρος) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μίμας (δορυφόρος)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(sat%C3%A9lite)" title="Mimas (satélite) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mimas (satélite)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimaso_(luno)" title="Mimaso (luno) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Mimaso (luno)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(satelitea)" title="Mimas (satelitea) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mimas (satelitea)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="میماس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="میماس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(lune)" title="Mimas (lune) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mimas (lune)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Mimas" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mimas" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EB%A7%88%EC%8A%A4_(%EC%9C%84%EC%84%B1)" title="미마스 (위성) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미마스 (위성)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%BD_(%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%AF)" title="Միմաս (արբանյակ) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Միմաս (արբանյակ)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8_(%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9)" title="माइमस (उपग्रह) – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="माइमस (उपग्रह)" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(mjesec)" title="Mimas (mjesec) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Mimas (mjesec)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Mimas" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(satelit)" title="Mimas (satelit) – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mimas (satelit)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(astronomia)" title="Mimas (astronomia) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mimas (astronomia)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A1" title="מימס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מימס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98_(%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%92%E1%83%96%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98)" title="მიმასი (თანამგზავრი) – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მიმასი (თანამგზავრი)" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Мимас – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="Мимас" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Мимас – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Мимас" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(satelles)" title="Mimas (satelles) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Mimas (satelles)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimass_(pavadonis)" title="Mimass (pavadonis) – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Mimass (pavadonis)" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(Mound)" title="Mimas (Mound) – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Mimas (Mound)" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(palydovas)" title="Mimas (palydovas) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Mimas (palydovas)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(hold)" title="Mimas (hold) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Mimas (hold)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82_(%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0)" title="Мимант (месечина) – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Мимант (месечина)" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="മിമസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മിമസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(bulan)" title="Mimas (bulan) – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Mimas (bulan)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(%C3%B4i-s%C4%ADng)" title="Mimas (ôi-sĭng) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Mimas (ôi-sĭng)" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Mimas" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Mirandés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%AE%E1%80%99%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA_(%E1%80%82%E1%80%BC%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9F%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B6%E1%80%9C)" title="မီမက်စ် (ဂြိုဟ်ရံလ) – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="မီမက်စ် (ဂြိုဟ်ရံလ)" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(maan)" title="Mimas (maan) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Mimas 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title="Mimas (satelit) – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Mimas (satelit)" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Мимас – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Мимас" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas" title="Mimas – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Mimas" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Mimas_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Mimas (disambiguation)">Mimas (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Mimas</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mimas_Cassini.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Mimas_Cassini.jpg/240px-Mimas_Cassini.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Mimas_Cassini.jpg/360px-Mimas_Cassini.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Mimas_Cassini.jpg/480px-Mimas_Cassini.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1800" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Mimas imaged by the <i><a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens">Cassini</a></i> orbiter, February 2010. Mimas's surface is dominated by craters; the large crater at the right is <a href="/wiki/Herschel_(Mimantean_crater)" title="Herschel (Mimantean crater)">Herschel</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#E0CCFF">Discovery</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planet_discoverers" title="List of minor planet discoverers">Discovered by</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Discovery date</th><td class="infobox-data">17 September 1789<sup id="cite_ref-CosmoVisions_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CosmoVisions-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#E0CCFF">Designations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Designation</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Saturn I</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;">Pronunciation</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or as Greco-Latin <i>Mimas</i> (approximated <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Named after</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mimas_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mimas (mythology)">Μίμας</a> <i>Mimās</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_adjectivals_and_demonyms_of_astronomical_bodies" title="List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies">Adjectives</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Mimantean,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mimantian<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (both <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Planet_symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="Planet symbols">Symbol</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mimas_symbol_(bold).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mimas_symbol_%28bold%29.svg/24px-Mimas_symbol_%28bold%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="24" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mimas_symbol_%28bold%29.svg/36px-Mimas_symbol_%28bold%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Mimas_symbol_%28bold%29.svg/48px-Mimas_symbol_%28bold%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a></span> (rare)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#E0CCFF"><a href="/wiki/Osculating_orbit" title="Osculating orbit">Orbital characteristics</a> <sup id="cite_ref-Harvey-2007_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harvey-2007-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Apsis" title="Apsis">Periapsis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7008181902000000000♠"></span>181<span style="margin-left:.25em;">902</span> km</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Apsis" title="Apsis">Apoapsis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7008189176000000000♠"></span>189<span style="margin-left:.25em;">176</span> km</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Semi-major_and_semi-minor_axes" title="Semi-major and semi-minor axes">Semi-major axis</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7008185539000000000♠"></span>185<span style="margin-left:.25em;">539</span> km</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">Eccentricity</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6998196000000000000♠"></span>0.0196</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_period" title="Orbital period">Orbital period (sidereal)</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7004814252572576000♠"></span>0.942<span style="margin-left:.25em;">421</span><span style="margin-left:.25em;">959</span> d</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Average <a href="/wiki/Orbital_speed" title="Orbital speed">orbital speed</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">14.28 km/s (calculated)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Orbital_inclination" title="Orbital inclination">Inclination</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6998274714824263908♠"></span>1.574°</span> (to Saturn's equator)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">Satellite of</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#E0CCFF"><span class="anchor" id="Infobox_Physical_characteristics"></span>Physical characteristics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Mean_radius_(astronomy)" title="Mean radius (astronomy)">Dimensions</a></th><td class="infobox-data">415.6 × 393.4 × 381.2 km<br />(0.0311 Earths)<sup id="cite_ref-Roatsch-2009_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roatsch-2009-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Mean_radius_(astronomy)" title="Mean radius (astronomy)">Mean radius</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7005198200000000000♠"></span>198.2<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.4 km</span><sup id="cite_ref-Roatsch-2009_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roatsch-2009-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jacobson-2022_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobson-2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Spheroid#Surface_area" title="Spheroid">Surface area</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7005490000000000000♠"></span>490<span style="margin-left:.25em;">000</span></span>–<span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7005500000000000000♠"></span>500<span style="margin-left:.25em;">000</span> km<sup>2</sup></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Volume" title="Volume">Volume</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7007326000000000000♠"></span>32<span style="margin-left:.25em;">600</span><span style="margin-left:.25em;">000</span><span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>200<span style="margin-left:.25em;">000</span> km<sup>3</sup></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Mass" title="Mass">Mass</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7019375094000000000♠"></span>(3.750<span style="margin-left:.25em;">94</span><span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.000<span style="margin-left:.25em;">23</span>)<span style="margin-left:0.25em;margin-right:0.15em;">×</span>10<sup>19</sup> kg</span> <sup id="cite_ref-Jacobson-2022_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobson-2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />(6.3<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="2999400000000000000♠"></span>−6</span></sup> Earths)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Mean <a href="/wiki/Density" title="Density">density</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000115009999999999♠"></span>1.1501<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.0070 g/cm<sup>3</sup></span><sup id="cite_ref-Jacobson-2022_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobson-2022-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Surface_gravity" title="Surface gravity">Surface gravity</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0.064 <a href="/wiki/Acceleration" title="Acceleration">m/s<sup>2</sup></a> (0.00648 <a href="/wiki/Standard_gravity" title="Standard gravity">g</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Escape_velocity" title="Escape velocity">Escape velocity</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">0.159 km/s</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Synodic_rotation_period" class="mw-redirect" title="Synodic rotation period">Synodic rotation period</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Synchronous_rotation" class="mw-redirect" title="Synchronous rotation">synchronous</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Axial_tilt" title="Axial tilt">Axial tilt</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">zero</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Albedo" title="Albedo">Albedo</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="6999962000000000000♠"></span>0.962<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.004</span> (<a href="/wiki/Geometric_albedo" title="Geometric albedo">geometric</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-Verbiscer-2007_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Verbiscer-2007-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><a href="/wiki/Temperature" title="Temperature">Temperature</a></th><td class="infobox-data">≈ 64 K</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="max-width:11em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" title="Apparent magnitude">Apparent magnitude</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">12.9 <sup id="cite_ref-ARVAL-2007_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ARVAL-2007-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mimas</b>, also designated <b>Saturn I</b>, is the seventh-largest <a href="/wiki/Natural_satellite" title="Natural satellite">natural satellite</a> of <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>. With a <a href="/wiki/Mean_diameter" class="mw-redirect" title="Mean diameter">mean diameter</a> of 396.4 kilometres or 246.3 miles, Mimas is the smallest <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_body" class="mw-redirect" title="Astronomical body">astronomical body</a> known to be roughly rounded in shape due to its own gravity. Mimas's low density, 1.15 g/cm<sup>3</sup>, indicates that it is composed mostly of water ice with only a small amount of rock, and study of Mimas's motion suggests that it may have a liquid ocean beneath its surface ice. The surface of Mimas is heavily cratered and shows little signs of recent geological activity. A notable feature of Mimas's surface is <a href="/wiki/Herschel_(Mimantean_crater)" title="Herschel (Mimantean crater)">Herschel</a>, one of the largest craters relative to the size of the parent body in the Solar System. Herschel measures 139 kilometres (86 miles) across, about one-third of Mimas's mean diameter,<sup id="cite_ref-USGS_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGS-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and formed from an extremely energetic <a href="/wiki/Impact_event" title="Impact event">impact event</a>. The crater's name is derived from the discoverer of Mimas, <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a>, in 1789. The moon's presence has created one of the largest 'gaps' in <a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn" title="Rings of Saturn">Saturn's ring</a>, named the <a href="/wiki/Cassini_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Cassini Division">Cassini Division</a>, due to <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">orbital resonance</a> destabilising the particles' orbit there. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discovery">Discovery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Discovery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Herschel01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/William_Herschel01.jpg/170px-William_Herschel01.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/William_Herschel01.jpg/255px-William_Herschel01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/William_Herschel01.jpg/340px-William_Herschel01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1936" data-file-height="2368" /></a><figcaption>William Herschel, discoverer of Mimas</figcaption></figure><p> Mimas was discovered by the <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a> on 17 September 1789. He recorded his discovery as follows: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I continued my observations constantly, whenever the weather would permit; and the great light of the forty-feet speculum was now of so much use, that I also, on the 17th of September, detected the seventh satellite, when it was at its greatest preceding elongation.<sup id="cite_ref-Herschel-1790_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herschel-1790-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>William Herschel</cite></div></blockquote> <p>The <a href="/wiki/40-foot_telescope" title="40-foot telescope">40-foot telescope</a> was a metal mirror reflecting telescope built by Herschel, with a 48-inch (1,200 mm) aperture. The 40 feet refers to the length of the focus, not the aperture diameter as is more common with modern telescopes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_F._Hershel.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/John_F._Hershel.png/250px-John_F._Hershel.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/John_F._Hershel.png/330px-John_F._Hershel.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/John_F._Hershel.png/340px-John_F._Hershel.png 2x" data-file-width="349" data-file-height="442" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel">John Herschel</a>, the astronomer who suggested that the moons of Saturn be named after the Titans and Giants</figcaption></figure> <p>Mimas is named after one of the <a href="/wiki/Giants_(Greek_mythology)" title="Giants (Greek mythology)">Giants</a> in <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mimas_(Giant)" title="Mimas (Giant)">Mimas</a>. The names of all seven then-known satellites of Saturn, including Mimas, were suggested by William Herschel's son <a href="/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel">John</a> in his 1847 publication <i>Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Saturn (the Roman equivalent of <a href="/wiki/Cronus" title="Cronus">Cronus</a> in Greek mythology) was the leader of the Titans, the generation before the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Gods</a>, and rulers of the world for some time, while the Giants were the subsequent generation, and each group fought a great struggle against <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> and the Olympians. </p><p>The customary English pronunciation of the name is <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or sometimes <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Greek and Latin root of the name is <i>Mimant-</i> (cf. Italian <i>Mimante</i>, Russian <i>Мимант</i> for the mythological figure),<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and so the English adjectival form is <i>Mimantean</i><sup id="cite_ref-JPL-2009_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JPL-2009-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <i>Mimantian</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> either spelling pronounced <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span> ~ <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Planetary moons other than Earth's were never given symbols in the astronomical literature. Denis Moskowitz, a software engineer who designed most of the <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">dwarf planet</a> symbols, proposed a Greek <a href="/wiki/Mu_(letter)" title="Mu (letter)">mu</a> (the initial of Mimas) combined with the crook of the Saturn symbol as the symbol of Mimas (<span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mimas_symbol_(fixed_width).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Mimas_symbol_%28fixed_width%29.svg/16px-Mimas_symbol_%28fixed_width%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Mimas_symbol_%28fixed_width%29.svg/24px-Mimas_symbol_%28fixed_width%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Mimas_symbol_%28fixed_width%29.svg/32px-Mimas_symbol_%28fixed_width%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a></span>). This symbol is not widely used.<sup id="cite_ref-moons_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-moons-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physical_characteristics">Physical characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Physical characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_geological_features_on_Mimas" title="List of geological features on Mimas">List of geological features on Mimas</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Earth_Moon_Mimas.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Earth_Moon_Mimas.png/250px-Earth_Moon_Mimas.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Earth_Moon_Mimas.png/330px-Earth_Moon_Mimas.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Earth_Moon_Mimas.png/500px-Earth_Moon_Mimas.png 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2026" /></a><figcaption>Size comparison between Mimas (lower left), the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> (upper left) and Earth</figcaption></figure> <p>Mimas is the smallest and innermost of Saturn's major moons. The surface area of Mimas is slightly less than the land area of <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> or <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>. The low density of Mimas, 1.15 g/cm<sup>3</sup>, indicates that it is composed mostly of water ice with only a small amount of rock. As a result of the tidal forces acting on it, Mimas is noticeably <a href="/wiki/Prolate_spheroid" class="mw-redirect" title="Prolate spheroid">oblate</a>; its longest axis is about 10% longer than the shortest. The <a href="/wiki/Ellipsoid#Rotational_equilibrium" title="Ellipsoid">ellipsoidal</a> shape of Mimas is especially noticeable in some recent <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (August 2024)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> images from the <i><a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens">Cassini</a></i> probe. Mimas's most distinctive feature is a giant <a href="/wiki/Impact_crater" title="Impact crater">impact crater</a> 139 km (86 mi) across, named <a href="/wiki/Herschel_(Mimantean_crater)" title="Herschel (Mimantean crater)">Herschel</a> after the discoverer of Mimas. Herschel's diameter is almost a third of Mimas's own diameter; its walls are approximately 5 km (3 mi) high, parts of its floor measure 10 km (6 mi) deep, and its central peak rises 6 km (4 mi) above the crater floor. If there were a crater of an equivalent scale on <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> (in relative size) it would be over 4,000 km (2,500 mi) in diameter, wider than <a href="/wiki/Australia_(continent)" title="Australia (continent)">Australia</a>. The impact that made this crater must have nearly shattered Mimas: the surface <a href="/wiki/Antipodal_point" title="Antipodal point">antipodal</a> to Herschel (opposite through the globe) is highly disrupted, indicating that the shock waves created by the Herschel impact propagated through the whole moon.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> See for example figure 4 of<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:High_Relief_Mimas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/High_Relief_Mimas.jpg/220px-High_Relief_Mimas.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/High_Relief_Mimas.jpg/330px-High_Relief_Mimas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/High_Relief_Mimas.jpg/440px-High_Relief_Mimas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>A high-relief image of Mimas by Cassini on January 30, 2017. The shapes and the texture of its many overlapping craters can clearly be seen.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Mimantean surface is saturated with smaller impact craters, but no others are anywhere near the size of Herschel. Although Mimas is heavily cratered, the cratering is not uniform. Most of the surface is covered with craters larger than 40 km (25 mi) in diameter, but in the south polar region, there are generally no craters larger than 20 km (12 mi) in diameter. </p><p>Three types of geological features are officially recognised on Mimas: <a href="/wiki/Impact_crater" title="Impact crater">craters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chasma" title="Chasma">chasmata</a> (chasms), and <a href="/wiki/Crater_chain" title="Crater chain">catenae</a> (crater chains). </p><p>By studying Mimas's movement, researchers have found that it has a water ocean beneath 20–30 km (12–19 mi) of surface ice. The ocean formed within the last 25 million years, perhaps even the last 2-3 million years, and is thought to be warmed by Saturn's tidal forces.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orbital_resonances">Orbital resonances</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Orbital resonances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A number of features in <a href="/wiki/Saturn%27s_rings" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturn's rings">Saturn's rings</a> are related to <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance" title="Orbital resonance">resonances</a> with Mimas. Mimas is responsible for clearing the material from the <a href="/wiki/Cassini_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Cassini Division">Cassini Division</a>, the gap between Saturn's two widest rings, the <a href="/wiki/A_Ring" class="mw-redirect" title="A Ring">A Ring</a> and <a href="/wiki/B_Ring" class="mw-redirect" title="B Ring">B Ring</a>. Particles in the <a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#Huygens_Gap" title="Rings of Saturn">Huygens Gap</a> at the inner edge of the Cassini division are in a 2:1 orbital resonance with Mimas. They orbit twice for each orbit of Mimas. The repeated pulls by Mimas on the Cassini division particles, always in the same direction in space, force them into new orbits outside the gap. The boundary between the C and B rings is in a 3:1 resonance with Mimas. Recently, the <a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Saturn#G_Ring" title="Rings of Saturn">G Ring</a> was found to be in a 7:6 co-rotation eccentricity resonance<sup id="cite_ref-Hedman-2007_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hedman-2007-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (November 2012)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> with Mimas; the ring's inner edge is about 15,000 km (9,300 mi) inside Mimas's orbit.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Mimas is also in a 2:1 <a href="/wiki/Orbital_resonance#Mean-motion_resonances_in_the_Solar_System" title="Orbital resonance">mean-motion resonance</a> with the larger moon <a href="/wiki/Tethys_(moon)" title="Tethys (moon)">Tethys</a>, and in a 2:3 resonance with the outer <a href="/wiki/F_Ring" class="mw-redirect" title="F Ring">F Ring</a> <a href="/wiki/Shepherd_Moon" class="mw-redirect" title="Shepherd Moon">shepherd</a> moonlet, <a href="/wiki/Pandora_(moon)" title="Pandora (moon)">Pandora</a>. A moon co-orbital with Mimas was reported by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_P._Synnott" title="Stephen P. Synnott">Stephen P. Synnott</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_J._Terrile" title="Richard J. Terrile">Richard J. Terrile</a> in 1982, but was never confirmed.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Anomalous_libration_and_subsurface_ocean">Anomalous libration and subsurface ocean</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Anomalous libration and subsurface ocean"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2014, researchers noted that the <a href="/wiki/Libration" title="Libration">librational</a> motion of Mimas has a component that cannot be explained by its orbit alone, and concluded that it was due to either an interior that is not in <a href="/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium#Planetary_geology" title="Hydrostatic equilibrium">hydrostatic equilibrium</a> (an elongated <a href="/wiki/Planetary_core" title="Planetary core">core</a>) or an <a href="/wiki/Internal_ocean" class="mw-redirect" title="Internal ocean">internal ocean</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Tajeddine-2014_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tajeddine-2014-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in 2017 it was concluded that the presence of an ocean in Mimas's interior would have led to surface tidal stresses comparable to or greater than those on tectonically active <a href="/wiki/Europa_(moon)" title="Europa (moon)">Europa</a>. Thus, the lack of evidence for surface cracking or other tectonic activity on Mimas argues against the presence of such an ocean; as the formation of a core would have also produced an ocean and thus the nonexistent tidal stresses, that possibility is also unlikely.<sup id="cite_ref-Rhoden-2017_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rhoden-2017-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The presence of an asymmetric mass anomaly associated with the crater Herschel was considered to be a more likely explanation for the libration.<sup id="cite_ref-Rhoden-2017_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rhoden-2017-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, scientists at the <a href="/wiki/Southwest_Research_Institute" title="Southwest Research Institute">Southwest Research Institute</a> identified a tidal heating model for Mimas that produced an internal ocean without any surface cracking or visible tidal stresses. The presence of an internal ocean concealed by a stable icy shell between 24 and 31 km in thickness was found to match the visual and librational characteristics of Mimas as observed by <i>Cassini</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chang-2022_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chang-2022-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Continued measurements of Mimas's surface heat flux will be needed to confirm this hypothesis.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 7 February 2024, researchers at the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Observatory" title="Paris Observatory">Paris Observatory</a> announced the discovery that Mimas's orbit <a href="/wiki/Apsidal_precession" title="Apsidal precession">apsidally precesses</a> slower than predicted if it were a solid body, which further supports the existence of a subsurface ocean in Mimas. The researchers estimated the ocean to be located 20 to 30 km below the surface, consistent with previous estimates. The researchers suggest that Mimas's ocean must be very young, less than 25 million years old, to explain the lack of geological activity on Mimas's cratered surface.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Exploration">Exploration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Exploration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_11" title="Pioneer 11">Pioneer 11</a></i> flew by Saturn in 1979, and its closest approach to Mimas was 104,263 km on 1 September 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a></i> flew by in 1980, and <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_2" title="Voyager 2">Voyager 2</a></i> in 1981. </p><p> Mimas was imaged several times by the <a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens"><i>Cassini</i> orbiter</a>, which entered into orbit around Saturn in 2004. A close flyby occurred on 13 February 2010, when <i>Cassini</i> passed by Mimas at 9,500 km (5,900 mi).<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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style="text-align:center">Mimas maps – June 2017</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:187px;max-width:187px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:184px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PIA17215-Mimas-NorthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/PIA17215-Mimas-NorthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg/250px-PIA17215-Mimas-NorthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="185" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/PIA17215-Mimas-NorthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg/330px-PIA17215-Mimas-NorthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/PIA17215-Mimas-NorthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg/500px-PIA17215-Mimas-NorthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2439" data-file-height="2438" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">North pole</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:313px;max-width:313px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:184px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Mimas_2017-01_PIA17214.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Map_of_Mimas_2017-01_PIA17214.jpg/330px-Map_of_Mimas_2017-01_PIA17214.jpg" decoding="async" width="311" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Map_of_Mimas_2017-01_PIA17214.jpg/500px-Map_of_Mimas_2017-01_PIA17214.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Map_of_Mimas_2017-01_PIA17214.jpg/960px-Map_of_Mimas_2017-01_PIA17214.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6330" data-file-height="3756" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Global map</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:187px;max-width:187px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:184px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PIA17215-Mimas-SouthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/PIA17215-Mimas-SouthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg/250px-PIA17215-Mimas-SouthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg" decoding="async" width="185" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/PIA17215-Mimas-SouthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg/330px-PIA17215-Mimas-SouthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/PIA17215-Mimas-SouthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg/500px-PIA17215-Mimas-SouthPoleMap-SaturnMoon-June2017.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2439" data-file-height="2438" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">South pole</div></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NASA_Spacecraft_Sees_%27Pac-Man%27_on_Saturn_Moon_(4474329146).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/NASA_Spacecraft_Sees_%27Pac-Man%27_on_Saturn_Moon_%284474329146%29.jpg/250px-NASA_Spacecraft_Sees_%27Pac-Man%27_on_Saturn_Moon_%284474329146%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/NASA_Spacecraft_Sees_%27Pac-Man%27_on_Saturn_Moon_%284474329146%29.jpg/330px-NASA_Spacecraft_Sees_%27Pac-Man%27_on_Saturn_Moon_%284474329146%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/NASA_Spacecraft_Sees_%27Pac-Man%27_on_Saturn_Moon_%284474329146%29.jpg/500px-NASA_Spacecraft_Sees_%27Pac-Man%27_on_Saturn_Moon_%284474329146%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1870" data-file-height="949" /></a><figcaption>A temperature map overlay of Mimas that looks like Pac-Man</figcaption></figure> <p>When seen from certain angles, Mimas resembles the <a href="/wiki/Death_Star" title="Death Star">Death Star</a>, a fictional <a href="/wiki/Space_station" title="Space station">space station</a> and superweapon known from the 1977 film <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)" title="Star Wars (film)">Star Wars</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Herschel_(Mimantean_crater)" title="Herschel (Mimantean crater)">Herschel</a> resembles the concave disc of the Death Star's "superlaser". This is a coincidence, as the film was made nearly three years before Mimas was resolved well enough to see the crater.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, NASA revealed a temperature map of Mimas, using images obtained by <i>Cassini</i>. The warmest regions, which are along one edge of Mimas, create a shape similar to the video game character <a href="/wiki/Pac-Man_(character)" title="Pac-Man (character)">Pac-Man</a>, with Herschel Crater assuming the role of an "edible dot" or <a href="/wiki/Pac-Man" title="Pac-Man">"power pellet"</a> known from Pac-Man gameplay.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_natural_satellites" title="List of natural satellites">List of natural satellites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_in_fiction#Other_moons" title="Saturn in fiction">Mimas in fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_liquid_water" title="Extraterrestrial liquid water">Extraterrestrial liquid water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_world" title="Ocean world">Ocean world</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mimas&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 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class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Shepherd_moon" title="Shepherd moon">Ring shepherds</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pan_(moon)" title="Pan (moon)">Pan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daphnis_(moon)" title="Daphnis (moon)">Daphnis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_(moon)" title="Atlas (moon)">Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_(moon)" title="Prometheus (moon)">Prometheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pandora_(moon)" title="Pandora (moon)">Pandora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epimetheus_(moon)" title="Epimetheus (moon)">Epimetheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janus_(moon)" title="Janus (moon)">Janus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn#Alkyonides" title="Moons of Saturn">Alkyonides</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Methone_(moon)" title="Methone (moon)">Methone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthe_(moon)" title="Anthe (moon)">Anthe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallene_(moon)" title="Pallene (moon)">Pallene</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Large moons<br />(with <a href="/wiki/Co-orbital_configuration#Trojan_moons" title="Co-orbital configuration">trojans</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mimas</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Enceladus" title="Enceladus">Enceladus</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Tethys_(moon)" title="Tethys (moon)">Tethys</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Telesto_(moon)" title="Telesto (moon)">Telesto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calypso_(moon)" title="Calypso (moon)">Calypso</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Dione_(moon)" title="Dione (moon)">Dione</a></b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helene_(moon)" title="Helene (moon)">Helene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polydeuces_(moon)" title="Polydeuces (moon)">Polydeuces</a></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Rhea_(moon)" title="Rhea (moon)">Rhea</a></b></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a></b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperion_(moon)" title="Hyperion (moon)">Hyperion</a></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)" title="Iapetus (moon)">Iapetus</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Inuit_group" title="Inuit group">Inuit group</a> (36)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kiviuq subgroup (20)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>S/2023 S 6</li> <li>S/2023 S 1</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2019_S_1" title="S/2019 S 1">S/2019 S 1</a></li> <li>S/2004 S 54</li> <li>S/2019 S 22</li> <li>S/2019 S 23</li> <li>S/2020 S 11</li> <li>S/2019 S 25</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiviuq_(moon)" title="Kiviuq (moon)">Kiviuq</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 2</li> <li>S/2004 S 55</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2005_S_4" class="mw-redirect" title="S/2005 S 4">S/2005 S 4</a></li> <li>S/2020 S 12</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2020_S_1" class="mw-redirect" title="S/2020 S 1">S/2020 S 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ijiraq_(moon)" title="Ijiraq (moon)">Ijiraq</a></li> <li>S/2019 S 24</li> <li>S/2007 S 10</li> <li>S/2019 S 26</li> <li>S/2020 S 13</li> <li>S/2023 S 7</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Paaliaq</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paaliaq" title="Paaliaq">Paaliaq</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Siarnaq subgroup (15)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>S/2023 S 19</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_31" title="S/2004 S 31">S/2004 S 31</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 3</li> <li>S/2019 S 32</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarqeq" title="Tarqeq">Tarqeq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2019_S_14" title="S/2019 S 14">S/2019 S 14</a></li> <li>S/2020 S 19</li> <li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Siarnaq" title="Siarnaq">Siarnaq</a></b></i></li> <li>S/2005 S 6</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2020_S_3" title="S/2020 S 3">S/2020 S 3</a></li> <li>S/2004 S 58</li> <li>S/2006 S 23</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2019_S_6" title="S/2019 S 6">S/2019 S 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2020_S_5" title="S/2020 S 5">S/2020 S 5</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 22</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Gallic_group" title="Gallic group">Gallic group</a> (17)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><b><a href="/wiki/Albiorix_(moon)" title="Albiorix (moon)">Albiorix</a></b></i></li> <li>S/2020 S 15</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bebhionn_(moon)" title="Bebhionn (moon)">Bebhionn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2007_S_8" title="S/2007 S 8">S/2007 S 8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_LX" title="Saturn LX">Saturn LX</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 18</li> <li>S/2023 S 17</li> <li>S/2019 S 29</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erriapus" title="Erriapus">Erriapus</a></li> <li>S/2007 S 11</li> <li>S/2019 S 31</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarvos_(moon)" title="Tarvos (moon)">Tarvos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2020_S_4" title="S/2020 S 4">S/2020 S 4</a></li> <li>S/2019 S 34</li> <li>S/2005 S 7</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2006_S_12" title="S/2006 S 12">S/2006 S 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_24" title="S/2004 S 24">S/2004 S 24</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Norse_group" title="Norse group">Norse group</a> (197)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Low-inclination (12)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Skathi_(moon)" title="Skathi (moon)">Skathi</a></li> <li>S/2020 S 17</li> <li>S/2023 S 20</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyrrokkin_(moon)" title="Hyrrokkin (moon)">Hyrrokkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narvi_(moon)" title="Narvi (moon)">Narvi</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 27</li> <li>S/2019 S 37</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bestla_(moon)" title="Bestla (moon)">Bestla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2019_S_11" title="S/2019 S 11">S/2019 S 11</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 30</li> <li>S/2020 S 27</li> <li>S/2023 S 46</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Kari subgroup (16)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>S/2019 S 28</li> <li>S/2006 S 25</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2006_S_1" title="S/2006 S 1">S/2006 S 1</a></li> <li>S/2004 S 45</li> <li>S/2023 S 33</li> <li>S/2020 S 30</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2006_S_3" title="S/2006 S 3">S/2006 S 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kari_(moon)" title="Kari (moon)">Kari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geirrod_(moon)" title="Geirrod (moon)">Geirrod</a></li> <li>S/2019 S 17</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2019_S_19" class="mw-redirect" title="S/2019 S 19">S/2019 S 19</a></li> <li>S/2019 S 18</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_21" title="S/2004 S 21">S/2004 S 21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_36" title="S/2004 S 36">S/2004 S 36</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 45</li> <li>S/2019 S 20</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mundilfari subgroup (141)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>S/2004 S 56</li> <li>S/2023 S 8</li> <li>S/2023 S 11</li> <li>S/2006 S 21</li> <li>S/2023 S 9</li> <li>S/2006 S 22</li> <li>S/2023 S 10</li> <li>S/2023 S 12</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2007_S_5" title="S/2007 S 5">S/2007 S 5</a></li> <li>S/2007 S 7</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_37" title="S/2004 S 37">S/2004 S 37</a></li> <li>S/2004 S 47</li> <li>S/2004 S 40</li> <li>S/2020 S 14</li> <li>S/2019 S 27</li> <li>S/2023 S 13</li> <li>S/2019 S 3</li> <li>S/2020 S 16</li> <li>S/2023 S 14</li> <li>S/2023 S 16</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2020_S_7" class="mw-redirect" title="S/2020 S 7">S/2020 S 7</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 15</li> <li>S/2023 S 50</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skoll_(moon)" title="Skoll (moon)">Skoll</a></li> <li>S/2020 S 18</li> <li>S/2019 S 30</li> <li>S/2020 S 2</li> <li>S/2023 S 4</li> <li>S/2019 S 4</li> <li>S/2004 S 41</li> <li>S/2004 S 57</li> <li>S/2020 S 20</li> <li>S/2006 S 24</li> <li>S/2004 S 42</li> <li>S/2019 S 35</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_13" title="S/2004 S 13">S/2004 S 13</a></li> <li>S/2007 S 6</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mundilfari_(moon)" title="Mundilfari (moon)">Mundilfari</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 21</li> <li>S/2020 S 21</li> <li>S/2019 S 33</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_43" class="mw-redirect" title="S/2004 S 43">S/2004 S 43</a></li> <li>S/2006 S 10</li> <li>S/2019 S 5</li> <li>S/2004 S 59</li> <li>S/2023 S 23</li> <li>S/2020 S 22</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gridr_(moon)" title="Gridr (moon)">Gridr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bergelmir_(moon)" title="Bergelmir (moon)">Bergelmir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarnsaxa_(moon)" title="Jarnsaxa (moon)">Jarnsaxa</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 24</li> <li>S/2006 S 27</li> <li>S/2004 S 44</li> <li>S/2020 S 23</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hati_(moon)" title="Hati (moon)">Hati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_17" title="S/2004 S 17">S/2004 S 17</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 25</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_12" title="S/2004 S 12">S/2004 S 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eggther_(moon)" title="Eggther (moon)">Eggther</a></li> <li>S/2006 S 13</li> <li>S/2023 S 28</li> <li>S/2019 S 36</li> <li>S/2007 S 9</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farbauti_(moon)" title="Farbauti (moon)">Farbauti</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 26</li> <li>S/2019 S 9</li> <li>S/2023 S 48</li> <li>S/2020 S 24</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aegir_(moon)" title="Aegir (moon)">Aegir</a></li> <li>S/2019 S 10</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beli_(moon)" title="Beli (moon)">Beli</a></li> <li>S/2020 S 25</li> <li>S/2023 S 29</li> <li>S/2004 S 61</li> <li>S/2019 S 12</li> <li>S/2023 S 32</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2006_S_14" title="S/2006 S 14">S/2006 S 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunnlod_(moon)" title="Gunnlod (moon)">Gunnlod</a></li> <li>S/2019 S 15</li> <li>S/2023 S 31</li> <li>S/2020 S 6</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_7" title="S/2004 S 7">S/2004 S 7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2005_S_5" title="S/2005 S 5">S/2005 S 5</a></li> <li>S/2023 S 34</li> <li>S/2020 S 32</li> <li>S/2020 S 26</li> <li>S/2006 S 16</li> <li>S/2006 S 15</li> <li>S/2023 S 38</li> <li>S/2023 S 36</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S/2004_S_28" title="S/2004 S 28">S/2004 S 28</a></li> <li>S/2020 S 29</li> <li>S/2020 S 8</li> <li>S/2023 S 35</li> <li>S/2023 S 49</li> <li>S/2023 S 39</li> <li>S/2004 S 48</li> <li>S/2023 S 40</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fenrir_(moon)" title="Fenrir (moon)">Fenrir</a></li> <li>S/2004 S 50</li> <li>S/2019 S 38</li> <li>S/2006 S 17</li> <li>S/2004 S 49</li> <li>S/2023 S 42</li> <li>S/2020 S 28</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surtur_(moon)" title="Surtur (moon)">Surtur</a></li> <li><a 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