Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC/SWRI/SSI
Mimas seems to be the go-to world in the Solar System for pop culture references. In the visible spectrum it looks like the Death Star, and in infrared it, apparently, resembles Pac-Man eating a dot.
But as much as this may have caught the eye of the mass media for quite simple reasons, Emily Lakdawalla has the lowdown on why this image is actually a scientifically fascinating discovery.
5 comments:
Ha... read the article. It just shows, no matter how dull people think a moon is, there's always something unusual and interesting about it... if they look a little closer. :-)
Cool science, amusing coincidence.
nom nom nom
very cool discovery.
Amazingly amazing stuff.
Pretty planet...
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