Minmus inspiration?

[jlcarneiro]

Have you seen this?

 

[_Augustus_]

MINMUS IS MIMAS!!!

Edited February 3, 2017 by _Augustus_

[StupidAndy]

I always thought that they sounded the same!

[Superfluous J]

Maybe for the name and size, but other than that the two worlds share precious little in traits.

Minmus is the outer moon of a terrestrial planet, Mimas the inner of a gas giant.
Minmus is green/blue and cannot be made of water ice, Mimas is likely bluish white if it's truly water ice all the way through.
Minmus has flats and gentle slopes. Mimas - from that picture - looks like Mun's north pole only all over.

[StupidAndy]

maybe the name was inspired, but the surface wasnt

[SuperFastJellyfish]

Either way, it's an awesome image.   

[kerbiloid]

3 hours ago, 5thHorseman said:

Minmus is the outer moon of a terrestrial planet, Mimas the inner of a gas giant.
Minmus is green/blue and cannot be made of water ice, Mimas is likely bluish white if it's truly water ice all the way through.
Minmus has flats and gentle slopes. Mimas - from that picture - looks like Mun's north pole only all over.

This just proves that Minmus must be a Jool's moon, but was brutally forced to orbit the Kerbin.

Also, though existence of Minmus near the Kerbin is a good training for pilos, but this also makes Mun absolutely useless for colonization.

[wumpus]

9 hours ago, StupidAndy said:

maybe the name was inspired, but the surface wasnt

The two important reasons you want to land on Minmus first* are low gravity and large expanses of perfectly flat areas (visible from orbit).  Landing on Mimas appears excruciatingly challenging.

*Even in career mode, although it looks like they've given you plenty more electricity to make a Munar landing if you want to challenge yourself for the early Mun landing.

[NSEP]

I know. NASA's Mimas is inspired by Minmus, pretty cool huh.

[jlcarneiro]

2 hours ago, NSEP said:

I know. NASA's Mimas is inspired by Minmus, pretty cool huh.

This!

[VikingStormtrooper]

Minmus is inspired by Mimas. But Mimas is inspired by the Death Star! 

[kerbiloid]

Or it is. Just a little dusty.

[max_creative]

59 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Or it is. Just a little dusty.

Mimas is the Death Star one and a half!