Lets talk to Venus
When we look at Venus in the evening sky we think have image of the "The Birth of Venus" painting by Botticelli. Venus the second planet from the Sun and named after the Roman God of Love. Venus orbits the Sun every 224.7 Earth days. It has a rotation period of 243 Earth days,. The naming of the features on Venus after the names of female deities. Over the next few posts we will explore the stories behind the names. We see the picture below the names of some of features of surface of Venus Feature Types In planetary nomenclature, a chasma /ˈkæzmə is a deep, elongated, steep-sided depression. There are 122 feature of this type identified in the solar system. A corona is an oval shaped feature. A linea feature is a dark or bright elongate marking, may be curved or straight Heng O Chasma and Corona In Chinese Mythology Heng-O was the mother of the twelve moons (which represented each month of the year). At the beginning of the each month, Heng-O wa...
