Looking for life in the wrong places? Remarkable find! Looking for life in the wrong zones has limited past exoplanet studies. New research suggests that tidally locked planets can host liquid wate...

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Close-up view of Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, captured by Voyager 1 in 1980. The image showcases Rhea's heavily cratered surface, a result of its tidally locked rotation, exposing one side to more impacts than the other. The surface is predominantly water ice with a rocky core. Cassini's arrival at Saturn in 2004 provided further study.

Astronomy Picture from 08/06/2003

Rhea: Saturn's Second Largest Moon

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030608.html


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An eyeball planet is a hypothetical type of planet that's tidally locked to its star, meaning one side of it is always facing its star while the other is always facing away. As a result, one half of the planet is fiery while the other half is frozen.

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