Iapetus © NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Oh, and if you haven’t worked it out by now, the moon looks like the Death Star from Star Wars. Mimas also disrupts the orbits of much smaller moons, and speeds up when passing the large moons Enceladus and Dione.
Mimas is also tidally locked, with the same face towards Saturn throughout its 22.5 hour orbit of the planet. The moon is littered with craters, showing a lack of surface replenishment despite its close proximity to Saturn and elliptical orbit, which should provide enough heat through gravitational tidal activity. The body that struck the moon almost ripped it apart, as evidenced by the fractures on the opposite face of Mimas. The crater measures 130 km across with a 5 km surrounding walls is known as the Herschel Crater, after William Herschel who spotted the moon in 1789. On the Origin of the Lunar Surface Features - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol.40, No.12, 1096-1112, 1954.The resemblance of Saturn’s moon Mimas to an iconic moon-shaped fictional space station is largely the fault of a giant impact crater that covers a third of its diameter.
Kuiper - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol.41, No.7, 423, 1955. Some Criticisms of "On the origin of the Lunar Surface Features" by G. The Lunar Surface - Further Comments - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol.41, No.11, 820, 1955. Cruikshank from the National Academy of Sciences 1993. Gerard Peter Kuiper 1905 - 1973 - A Biographical Memoir by Dale P. Anecdotes (see also Whitaker, 1985 link on LPL page).The Solar System, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. (eds) (1963) The moon, meteorites and comets. Photographs of Gerard Kuiper and other lunar scientists in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, February 1969, pages 212 and 213 ( Moon men).In addition to the lunar crater named after him, there also are Kuiper craters on Mercury and Mars, as well as a belt of asteroids, which extend beyond Neptune, named in his honour. Kuiper later went on to make serious contributions in the 1960s to the Ranger lunar probe program, and in the identification of landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. Some of Kuiper's findings still prove very topical and controversial today, however, while his research concerning the lunar surface was of significant importance at the time, today it must be viewed in a new light as having added to better descriptions in those areas. Urey, responded some critique comments on Kuiper's findings, and the whole debate between the two swayed to-an-fro. the Hyginus rille and the Alpine Valley), that 'central peaks' in craters were non-elastic, non-rebounding, and that the 'origin of tektites' originated from the Moon.
MOON ATLAS KUPIER SERIES
Not all agreed with his findings, which, in a series of papers that appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (see Bibliography below), he suggested that the Moon was 'once molten', that certain 'cracks' on the surface were due to impacts (e.g. Including both visual and photographic evidence, Kuiper's study led to some extraordinary theories and results. Recognizing that the moon's surface could hold information about the dynamic history of the terrestrial group of planets, he begun observing the lunar surface through the McDonald 82-inch telescope based on Mt.
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