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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Do you know why we are all sometimes called "
carbon units"?
Did you know that individuals don’t evolve, but populations do?
Earth and Space Science Concept of the Day
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RiparianxRiparian : The bank of a river or other body of water; may include the floodplains
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Research Highlights
Researchers have found a primitive Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Geologist Matthew Jackson and his colleagues from a multi-institution collaboration report the finding--the...
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