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🐺 Add a new fact about our Universe
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<img src='https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2501/Mimas_Cassini_960.jpg' width='60%' />
<h3 align="center">Cygnus X-1</h3>
<p align="center">The Earth weighs 81 times more than the moon.</p>
<p align="center">The universe is expanding, increasing by 0.007% in one million years.</p>
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Whatever hit Mimas nearly destroyed it. What remains is one of the largest impact craters on one of Saturn's smallest round moons. Analysis indicates that a slightly larger impact would have destroyed Mimas entirely. The huge crater, named Herschel after the 1789 discoverer of Mimas, Sir William Herschel, spans about 130 kilometers and is featured here. Mimas' low mass produces a surface gravity just strong enough to create a spherical body but weak enough to allow such relatively large surface features. Mimas is made of mostly water ice with a smattering of rock - so it is accurately described as a big dirty snowball. The featured image was taken during the closest-ever flyby of the robot spacecraft Cassini past Mimas in 2010 while in orbit around Saturn. Interactive: Take a trek across Mimas January 14: Zoom APOD Lecture hosted by the Amateur Astronomers of Association of New York


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