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February 13, 2005

The Death Star will soon be fully operational

The Cassini Spacecraft captured this image of Saturn's moon Mimas. Mimas' huge, 138-km-wide crater makes the small moon look like the Death Star from the Star Wars films. (Mike B explains that the Death Star did not actually appear in The Empire Strikes Back, as previously reported.) Link.

 

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