You show your love for geoscience in thousands of tiny ways. Your eyes might light up when you see unexpected geology in the rockface alongside the road. Maybe you can’t help but puzzle over the mineralogy of a handful of sand at the beach. Or you might know obscure trivia about planets and moons and can’t help sharing it with everyone. This Valentine’s Day, celebrate your love of Earth and space science with these naturally heart shaped features that show that the feeling is mutual.
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No Barriers Between Our Hearts
We want this barrier—Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, that is—to stick around for a long time.
You’ve Got Me On Cloud Nine
Watch beautiful and bold lenticular clouds form over New Zealand’s Mount Cook National Park. A special heart-shaped cloud glows red in the video below.
Your Love Sends Me to Mars
Mars has shared its heart-shaped craters, mesas, and depressions with many of the missions that study the Red Planet.
You Melt My Heart
Shimshal Lake, nestled in Hunza Valley in Pakistan, is hard to reach, but when you do reach it, this glacier melt lake will melt your heart.
You’re the Light in My Skies
The aurora borealis sent its love from the top of the world in October 2016.
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Pluto Loves You, Too
Planetary scientists love Pluto’s heart for its abundance of scientific potential.
These Are Tears of Joy
Cry only happy tears when you visit Pitugro waterfall in Thailand’s Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary.
You Warm My Heart
In April 2016, the Sun showed us its love with a heart-shaped sunspot as big as Earth.
Your Love Stopped Me Cold
A love frozen, yet fleeting: This temporary heart froze out of the Minneopa waterfall in Minneopa State Park near Mankato, Minn., in February 2016.
—Kimberly M. S. Cartier (@AstroKimCartier), Staff Writer
Citation:
Cartier, K. M. S. (2019), Heart-shaped valentines, from nature to you, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO116259. Published on 14 February 2019.
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