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Herschel crater
This image from the Cassini probe shows the Herschel crater on Mimas. This 130 km wide scar left by the impact of an asteroid is gigantic in relation to the 418 km diameter of this small moon belonging to Saturn. Proportionally speaking, such a crater on Earth would measure almost 4,000 km across!
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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