Saturn's Coolest #9: Rhea

[eyelessgame]

Until recently I wouldn't have put Rhea, or the similar moon Dione, into a top-ten list of Saturn's interesting moons. It's a moon. It has craters and mountains that make for a wispy appearance at a distance. It's otherwise pretty well-behaved and looks kind of generic as moons go. But the Cassini orbiter found out something weird about Rhea that

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[jayfurr]

It's because of the monolith on Iapetus.

[eyelessgame]

There's a monolith in the Saturn system all right. It's just not on Iapetus. I'm getting to it, though.

[jayfurr]

Reference to 2001: a Space Odyssey novel; in the novel the monolith was on Iapetus, not in Jovian orbit.

[eyelessgame]

:) Knew that. It's one of the reasons that the alien artifact orbiting Saturn is so awesome. Will get to it.