Explore Myths about Mercury
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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
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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
the
footprints left on the Moon’s surface by astronauts will last for
centuries, because there is no wind on the Moon?
Did you know that there is a strange hexagon in the atmosphere at the northern pole of Saturn?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
Do you know what this word or phrase means?
Spreading ridgexSpreading ridge : An oceanic spreading ridge is the fracture zone along the ocean bottom where molten mantle material comes to the surface, thus creating new crust.
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Research Highlights
Daniel Wolf Savin, a scientist at Columbia University, has published a paper on the research he and his colleagues have done on how stars began. In their research, the scientists built an apparatus to...
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