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Happy Valentine's Day. Love, Rhea

Explore Rhea, the moon of Saturn, which features a heart-shaped crater. Discover its mysteries and celebrate the diversity of other worlds.

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Same shape, different moon... An interplanetary dedication of love for all you starry-eyed geeks:

This is an image from Cassini. It's a closeup of a crater on Rhea, a moon of Saturn about half the size of our own natural satellite. I love how the small crater and ridge inside the bigger crater make it look like the heart is winking! In the full size image you can see what looks like a ridge to the left of the heart, but in fact that's the edge of a vast crater on the surface of Rhea. You can see it better in this image of the whole moon, where I've marked the location of the heart:

I don't know exactly what's going on with this heart; is it a crater that expanded when the walls collapsed around it, so it's no longer round? Or is it a sink hole, where the ...

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