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It may look as though Saturn’s moon Mimas is crashing through the planet’s rings…

It may look as though Saturn’s moon Mimas is crashing through the planet’s rings in this image taken by the international Cassini spacecraft, but Mimas is actually 45 000 km away from the rings. The image was taken on 23 October 2016 at a distance of about 183 000 km from Mimas. Image scale is 1 km/pixel. See http://ciclops.org/view/8439/Crash-Course