Cassini looks toward the high north on heavily cratered Mimas. The unmistakable Herschel impact crater is seen at lower left. Lit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn side of Mimas (396 kilometers, 246 miles across). The moon's north pole is up and tilted slightly toward Cassini. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 11, 2008. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 795,000 kilometers (494,000 miles) from Mimas and at a Sun-Mimas-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 88 degrees. Image scale is 5 kilometers (3 miles) per pixel.

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