Explore Myths about Venus

Venus was the goddess of love and beauty. To the perfection of her figure and the purity of ...
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Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is an Aztec deity representing the planet Venus and an apparition of ...
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Maya astronomers had a remarkably accurate knowledge of the apparent motion of Venus. They ...
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Scandinavian story-tellers spoke little about goddesses, who were rarely the chief characters ...
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Explore Myths about other nearby planets

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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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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Did you know?
Did you know that the
Earth’s lithosphere is broken into giant plates, which occasionally
move and can produce
earthquakes?
Did you know that, in Egyptian mythology, the sky goddess Nut married the Earth god Geb, and that the Sun god Re was angry, and so forced them to separate?
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QuaternaryxQuaternary : The Quaternary is the geologic time period comprising about the last 1.65 million years.
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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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