Explore Mythology of the Mayas

The Maya believed the Earth was flat with four corners. Each corner was a direction shown by ...
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Xib Chac was the Mayan rain god. He was a fair god, and was shown by many colors. He was often ...
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Ix Chel, the "Lady Rainbow," was the Moon goddess in Mayan mythology. The Mayans associated ...
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The ancient Mayans used the doorways and windows of their buildings to look at things in space. ...
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Mayans were sophisticated observers of the sky. Mayans used their astronomical knowledge to ...
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Mayans seem to have thought of the Milky Way as the road along which souls walk into the underworld. ...
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Did you know that
Saturn has a
strange hexagon shaped cloud structure at its north pole?
Did you know that the Earth’s lithosphere is broken into giant plates, which occasionally move and can produce earthquakes?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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SeismogenicxSeismogenic : Capable of producing earthquakes
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Research Highlights
Air pollution can get high in the atmosphere – high above most of the clouds you see in the sky. Scientists are finding air pollution more than 20 miles above the surface of the Earth. That’s in the stratosphere...
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