Mimas, Saturn's moon from NASA's Cassini spacecraft (2017)
Credits:Β NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
"Imaging scientists combined ten narrow-angle camera images to create this mosaic view. The scene is an orthographic projection ... An orthographic view is most like the view seen by a distant observer looking through a telescope."
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