SpazeMoon of Saturn
Mimas
Its giant Herschel crater, a third of the moon’s width, makes it look uncannily like the Death Star.
- Diameter
- 396 km
- Gravity
- 0.007 g
- Orbit
- 22.6 hours
- From Saturn
- 185,539 km
- Biggest crater
- Herschel, 139 km
Can we live on Mimas?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.01 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 0 kg there.
Ground: Water ice, heavily cratered.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NASA