# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BRmRVDChvPQ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736123-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2017-03-14T00:12:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Mimas' gigantic crater Herschel lies near the moon's limb in this Cassini view. A big enough impact could potentially break up a moon. Luckily for Mimas, whatever created Herschel was not quite big enough to cause that level of disruption. When large impacts happen, they deliver tremendous amounts of energy -- sometimes enough to cause global destruction.  Even impacts that are not catastrophic can leave enormous, near-permanent scars on bodies like Mimas (246 miles or 396 kilometers across). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

#nasa #cassini #space #mimas #planets #saturn #astronomy #science

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astronomy, mimas, science, nasa, planets, space, cassini, saturn

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