{"id":486559,"date":"2010-03-29T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2245515"},"modified":"2010-03-29T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:15:00","slug":"death-star-in-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/486559","title":{"rendered":"Death Star in detail"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The left image shows a visible-light image of Mimas, a Saturnian moon that
has been nicknamed the Death Star because of its “Star Wars” look. The right
image adds a false-color overlay of temperature data, which makes Mimas look
more like “Pac-Man” in mid-munch. Click on the picture for a larger version.

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The Cassini orbiter has gotten its closest look yet at Saturn\u2019s moon Mimas<\/A>, which is nicknamed the \u201cDeath Star\u201d because of its curious crater. The fresh imagery has generated new curiosities and yet another nickname for Mimas: the \u201cPac-Man\u201d moon.<\/P>
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“After much deliberation, we have concluded: Mimas is not<\/EM> boring. Who knew?!” Cassini imaging team leader Carolyn Porco said in an e-mail announcing today’s image release.<\/P>
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Linda Spilker, the Cassini project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, agreed: “Other moons usually grab the spotlight, but it turns out Mimas is more bizarre than we thought it was,” she observed in an image advisory<\/A>. “It has certainly given us some new puzzles.”<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA \/ JPL \/ GSFC \/ SwRI \/ SSI The left image shows a visible-light image of Mimas, a Saturnian moon that has been nicknamed the Death Star because of its “Star Wars” look. The right image adds a false-color overlay of temperature data, which makes Mimas look more like “Pac-Man” in mid-munch. Click on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}