This tilted look at Mimas highlights the many deep craters on the icy moon’s trailing side. North on Mimas (396 kilometers, 246 miles across) is up and rotated 44 degrees to the right. The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on June 12, 2007. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 614,000 kilometers (382,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 15 degrees. Image scale is 4 kilometers (2 miles) per pixel.

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