Cassini snaps an excellent view of the leading side of Mimas and its distinguishing crater, Herschel. The moon’s night side is partly lit by reflected light from Saturn. North on Mimas (396 kilometers, 246 miles across) is up and rotated 12 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 9, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (800,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 89 degrees. Image scale is 8 kilometers (5 miles) per pixel.

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