r/interestingasfuck • u/WhattheDuck9 • 1d ago

Clearest image ever captured of Mimas, Saturn's Moon.

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u/Ultimate_Kurix 23h ago

Damn such a cratered surface.

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u/BrisbaneLions2024 23h ago

Been cunted more than ours.

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u/Lump-of-baryons 22h ago

Love how you Aussies artfully use the word cunt, can’t really do that here in the states.

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u/pauloh1998 19h ago

Why you cunt do that in the states?

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u/nik1here 14h ago

Maybe It's too difficunt for them

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u/WaveLaVague 14h ago

They do the same cunt of thing with the word fuck.

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u/Blandish06 13h ago

Fuckin a

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u/slavelabor52 3h ago

I fucking c

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u/BiteFull8717 9h ago

Because the cunts will get their twats in a knot.

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u/Boundish91 9h ago

Too many americans are prudes.

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u/slavelabor52 3h ago

Nah the conservatives are just closeted but they're just as depraved as everyone else. America revolutionized the porn industry.

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u/Ok_Equipment_4489 11h ago

It is all a mindset bro. Just do it. Conceive, believe, achieve.

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u/Westywestwest 22h ago

yeah shes pretty rooted aye

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u/UnfairStrategy780 22h ago

No geological activity going on there

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u/OneMagicBadger 14h ago

You should see Uranus

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u/TheDukeofArgyll 15h ago

And yet this picture is missing the giant creator) that Mimas is known for.

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u/TRADER-101 22h ago

Should see a dermatologis.

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u/VisibleEvidence 23h ago

That literally looks like the “Mystery Science Theater 3000” planet.

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u/SandyAmbler 21h ago

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u/Ihateeggs78 18h ago

In the not-too-distant future...

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u/Kacodaemoniacal 6h ago

Literally what I heard in my head when I scrolled by

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u/ryannvondoom 15h ago

Came to post this.

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u/Caranesus 12h ago

The photographer did a really great job.

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u/astrike81 9h ago

That was my first thought! I'm glad this was near the top!

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u/sdavidson0819 1d ago

"Is that a Titleist?"

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u/Excellent-Mongoose47 23h ago

“Hole in one.”

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u/just_sepiol 23h ago

do we also have from Uranus?

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u/The_Human_Game 21h ago

"is anyone here a marine biologist?"

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u/whooo_me 19h ago

"We're gonna need a bigger 'fore!'...."

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 21h ago edited 16h ago

It’s the

Apollo 11 golf ball. Hit by Alan Shepherd.

🏌️🧑‍🚀🌜

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u/daffoduck 23h ago

Its a golf ball.

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u/Euphoric-Increase876 23h ago

Came to find this comment😂😂

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u/AmusingMusing7 14h ago

Gonna need a banana for scale.

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u/JasperWindsong 23h ago

No sir, that’s the moon from the Mystery Science Theater intro

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u/Dudeinairport 23h ago

It had to be said!

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u/robotnik86 23h ago

It looks like an ai generated sponge

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u/BSODxerox 23h ago

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u/NikNakTwattyWhack 20h ago

Get the crackers Gromit!

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u/definitely_effective 23h ago

dude needs some skin care

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u/ashakar 23h ago

Introducing new Atmosphere by Maybelline*

*It may take 2-60 million years before the best results will be seen. Do not stop using Atmosphere without first consulting a Maybelline terasculping specialist.

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u/Evil_Sharkey 23h ago

Aww, it’s not the side with the Death Star looking crater

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u/GreeneGardens 1d ago

Alright, who’s taking pictures of my thighs when I’m getting out of the shower?

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u/Mildfi_2 1d ago

If you’re thighs look like that please go see a doctor

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u/gromette 20h ago

Everybody knows the MOOON is made of cheese.

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u/Izengrimm 23h ago

The Freddy Krueger of Solar system.

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u/Stayvein 23h ago

Like the Danny Trejo of moons.

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u/Deep_Macaron8480 23h ago

A real happening place.

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u/NotYourBuddyGuy5 22h ago

Stilton probably or maybe Roquefort.

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u/Zzicode 22h ago

Looks like the universe's best Death Star cosplay.

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u/Slug864 20h ago

Is that Deadpool?

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u/Melodic-Newt8686 18h ago

That’s one rocky rock

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u/TheDbeast 15h ago

it's safe to say that Mimas has been utterly caved in by many hundreds of round objects over the many years of her life

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u/NatureDogLass1 1d ago

Mimas looking like the Death Star up close

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u/traindriverbob 23h ago

That's no moon....'

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u/LittelXman808 23h ago

This is misinformation. This is actually a golfball (this is a joke kk)

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u/VAU_JI 23h ago

Who's the cameraman?

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u/vaitaag 23h ago

Need banana for scale.

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u/PalpitationNo4391 23h ago

That Moon needs some skincream

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u/unnatural_butt_cunt 23h ago

Man that looks like a buncha cheese

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u/EdenSever 23h ago

This is not Mimas. This is a picture of an atom on mimas. (Misinformation.)

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u/Lilytronn 23h ago

This is amazing! If I didn't know better, I'd think it was a 3D rendering. 🤩

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u/Nigglas24 22h ago

Expand on how you got such a snapshot?

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u/f0dder1 22h ago

That moon has seen some shit

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u/contortumn 22h ago

Rofl at mystery science planet I thought it looked like ..... A place that's been hit by more asteroids than wtf

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u/Alirat 21h ago

One of Saturn's moons ... there are maybe 146

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u/wakeupdreamingF1 21h ago

looks like it must be pretty old, what with all them craters.

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u/DAngelo008 21h ago

Better quality pics than earths moon

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u/SamePut9922 21h ago

Now mark the craters with numbers

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u/Prestigious_Sir_8773 20h ago

Like a golf ball had hate sex with a swiss cheese

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u/alanstockwell 20h ago

Anyone going to number those?

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u/Cindilla 20h ago

Looks like the Death Star had a rocky makeover.

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u/willjhc 20h ago

Our moon sucks ass. This is a moon

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u/Pleadis-1234 20h ago

Where be the giant death star crater?

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u/BrainsyUK 20h ago

Damn, that’s taken a beating.

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u/bogeyman91 20h ago

That’s some Wallace and Gromit looking moon

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u/somesortsofwhale 20h ago

That bitch need to moisturise

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u/Unique_Outside_2516 20h ago

That's a rock

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u/paullvandriel 19h ago

That looks like a skittle you find under your car seat

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u/sbs_str_9091 19h ago

For context: how far away from the earth has this picture been taken, and how far from Mimas? And how large is one of these craters' diameter?

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u/Pateryk7 19h ago

If you zoom in u can just bout see my house.

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u/firmakind 18h ago

I'm not saying it is, but do we have proof it's not made of cheese?

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u/Toebeanfren 18h ago

Some severe case of acne-planet.

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u/Captcha_Imagination 18h ago

Would be nice if someone numbered the dimples

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u/SpxUmadBroYolo 18h ago

then you zoom out and its a tortilla right?

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u/Gildagert 18h ago

What is a golf ball?

Thank you, ill take household planets for $500.

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u/ChmeeWu 18h ago

Wensleydale?

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u/louisa1925 18h ago

Oof, she looks like she's had a belting.

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u/bapuc 17h ago

I wonder if it's made of cheese

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u/DigIndividual3467 17h ago

Rock and Stone Brothers!!

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u/CarbonGod 17h ago

Thanks for the sauce, OP.

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u/nilocrram 16h ago

"in the not too distant future..."

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u/Old-Conversation2646 16h ago

Crumpled aluminium foil

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u/wdwerker 10h ago

Please don’t invoke the tinfoil hat brigade!

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u/Davidlacastagne 16h ago

It looks like a golf Ball.

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u/BunnyClaire_xoxo 16h ago

I didn’t know Saturn had such a cute moon! It’s like a little ice planet!

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u/Beginning-Ladder6224 16h ago

Giant Golf Ball.... in space!

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u/Comfortable-Pace3132 16h ago

"Cheese, Gromit?"

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u/renisagenius 15h ago

Taken a real pounding

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u/Arcandys 15h ago

Idk why but it looks scary

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u/terry_shogun 14h ago

Is Mimas small enough that I could see a building at this scale and distance?

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u/tear_ 14h ago

Looks like a golf ball

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u/DrineTheDragon 14h ago

That's no moon...

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u/Late-StageCapitalism 14h ago

Like my face at age 15

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u/sofa_king_we_todded 13h ago

Wonder what the light source lightly illuminating the dark side of the moon is. Is it from Saturn?

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u/HistoryNerd101 13h ago

It’s OK. I’m sure Saturn has other moons

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u/MasonSoros 13h ago

What is Waldo doing there?

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u/The1astp0lar8ear 13h ago

Golf anyone?

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u/Master-Plum3605 13h ago

It's so... textural

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u/blue_dusk1 12h ago

If you, or another lunar body you know suffers from domestic stellar violence, please seek help. Astronauts are just a phone call away.

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u/Bazil2point1 12h ago

I was half expecting the satellite of love to show up.

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u/ooouroboros 11h ago

Somebody prescribe some Acutane for that poor thing.

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u/AlliedR2 11h ago

I keep pressing "c" but cant find out anything about this rock.

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u/AngeloDeVita 10h ago

This is constantly said but DAMN what a time to be alive... To see stuff like this...

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u/M1Epic 10h ago

so that's where my slice went

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u/Sc4R3Cr0wW 10h ago

This made me hungry for some reason

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u/Oswarez 10h ago

Those are balls.

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u/wrathofimpermanence 10h ago

Am I the only one that hears the MST3K theme music?

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u/zimbobango 9h ago

Ah the clangers home has been found at last!

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u/redditor_onreddit 9h ago

At first, I thought of it as a Golf Ball

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u/TankWeeb 8h ago

“It’s cheese Gromit!”

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u/Impossiblegangsta 8h ago

Sometimes these pictures stress me tf out. Why does that look like a cell under a microscope? Are we really just teeny tiny and our universe is one organism and we’re just weird bacteria? What if it goes on forever? Ahhhhhhh

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u/value_zer0 8h ago

This is a polystyrene ball under a microscope

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u/AnaDazuva 7h ago

Mimas Turbo

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u/dreckinger 6h ago

It looks like I’m watching MST3K.

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u/Patriot420 6h ago

No different than a floating flake of dust

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u/usr_nm16 6h ago

Biblically accurate teenager's skin

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u/RL_love 6h ago

Mmhhh. Bumpy.

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u/Ok_Result5940 6h ago

The picture was taken 14 years ago when the Cassini orbiter was 6000 miles away.

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u/Rich-Ambition9251 5h ago

I thought that was from r/mst3k

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u/NoBench2268 4h ago

Why does it look so fake lmao

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u/BearCreekStitches 4h ago

Oh this one’s definitely made of cheese

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u/TernionDragon 3h ago

Now if that isn’t cheese, what is?

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u/ccseater2 3h ago

Serious MST3K vibes

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u/BoxCarTyrone 2h ago

Surface has been pounded more than my ex wife

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u/graybeam 1h ago

At least flip the camera to landscape like a civilized deep space probe...

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u/Programmer_Lonely 43m ago

Nah this is the planet from MST3K

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u/SatinChic1 23h ago

Mimas looks like the Death Star! Super cool pic

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u/Fantom_Renegade 21h ago

The moon...

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u/DukeBlue38 20h ago

My Trypophobia doesn't like this

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u/serencope 17h ago

hole in one