Explore Myths about Mercury

Mercury was the god of eloquence, games of chance, commerce, and story telling, and was the ...
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Mercury was the prankster of the gods. And yet, in spite of his pranks, he won the affection ...
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Explore Myths about other nearby planets

Scandinavian story-tellers spoke little about goddesses, who were rarely the chief characters ...
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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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Maya astronomers had a remarkably accurate knowledge of the apparent motion of Venus. They ...
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Ares was the Greek god of war. He was identified with the Roman god, Mars. Ares was driven ...
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In Hindu mythology, the planet Mars is known as Mangala. Hindus believed in the existence ...
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Mayans were sophisticated observers of the sky. Mayans used their astronomical knowledge to ...
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you know that a
high
speed wind continuously blows off the
Sun,
carrying with it
plasma
that interacts with planetary environments, including Earth?
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Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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GrabenxGraben : A graben is a down-dropped block of the earth's crust resulting from extension, or pulling, of the crust.
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Research Highlights
A new study has found that a mixing of two different types of magma is the key to the historic eruptions of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain, and that eruptions often happen in a relatively short...
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