Cassini photographed the Death Star

Specialists working with the probe Cassini, published images of Saturn Mimas satellite, which was nicknamed by a giant crater Herschel Death Star. Photos and descriptions appear on the project CICLOPS, which analyze images generated probe.

 This photo was taken from a distance of 70 thousand kilometers of February 13, 2010 during the next approaching Cassini with Mimas. In the background is clearly visible silhouette of Saturn, and at the satellite - Herschel crater diameter of 130 kilometers, the emergence of a once almost destroyed this heavenly body.

Spacecraft to fly to Mars in 2025 will create

Create interplanetary spacecraft for flight to Mars may not still 2025, it said Anatoly Perminov Managing Roskosmos.

 "The possibility of flight to Mars should be combined with the creation of the ship, which will be a new engine at the nuclear facility. And then you can fly this month" - said Perminov. As he put it, the engine is planned for 2019, a ship - not before 2025, and the flight to Mars will be possible only after 2035.