In a very cool example of life imitating art, NASA has just released images of Saturn's moon Mimas, which bears a striking resemblance to a certain planet-destroying battle station from a 1977 science fiction movie.
Scientists first noticed Mimas's resemblance to the Death Star when the twin Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn in 1980 and 1981. The second film in the movie series - The Empire Strikes Back - had just hit movie theatres, recalls Cassini deputy project scientist Linda Spilker.
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