Explore Myths about Mercury
Mercury was the messenger-god of Jupiter, and was the god of games, of business, and of story ...
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Mercury was popular among the gods because he was playful, innocent, and helpful. Mercury ...
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Explore Myths about other nearby planets
One of the volcanoes on the planet of Venus is named after the Norse goddess Sif. Most of the ...
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Venus was the goddess of love and beauty. To the perfection of her figure and the purity of ...
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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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Ares was the Greek god of war, always acting and thinking like a warrior. Mars was identified ...
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In Hinduism, the major Indian religion, the planet Mars, called Mangala, is identified with ...
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Mayans were sophisticated observers of the sky. Mayans used their astronomical knowledge to ...
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Did you know?
Did
you know that
sunspots
are dark because of a balance of thermal and
magnetic
pressure?
Did you know that there is some pretty strange stuff in space?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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PlasmoidxPlasmoid : A structure of plasma and magnetic fields proposed to explain several natural phenomena including magnetic bubbles in magentospheres and ball lightning
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Research Highlights
Geologists have learned that a large earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people on September 29, 2009 in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga was in fact a triple-whammy. The magnitude 8.1 "great earthquake"...
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