Space Names

About Mercury   Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.  Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 Earth days, the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System. Mercury does not have any moons. The Roman god Mercury [1] was the god of translators and interpreters.  Let us look at the names of the features on Mercury.         Caloris Planitia and Caloris Montes The name has it origin from hot plain.   The diameter for the feature is 685.175km.   Nearby you have Caloris Montes a mountain range of hot mountains.       Pantheon Fossae and Apollodorus Crater   This is long depression of   11.494 km. The Patheon in Roman, was built initially by Marcus Agrippa in 27 BC and rebuilt by Hadrian between 118 AD and 128 AD. Along the fossae you will comes across the Apollodorus crater. Apollodorus of Damascus; Greek architect (2nd century AD).       Atget and  Cunningham Crate...

  More about Venus Let us explore the surface a bit more today and explore the stories behind the names. Yesterday we spoke about Heng O legend and also Badb lines.   Features Fossa [1]  is a long nature depression on the extra-terrestrial object Dorsa - A wrinkled ridge Planitia – A low plain   Namjyalma Fossae Namjyalma [2] is a Tibetan victorious mother.  She is typically as while in colour with three faces and eight arms. The symbolism of the while colour is the elimination of disasters. Unuk Dorsa The name has its origin in the Eskimo (Chukotka) night maiden. Dewi Ratih Chasma Dewi Ratih [3] is a Hindu lunar goddess worshipped in Java and Bali. She is well known for her beauty and grace, thus she was also known as the Goddess of Beauty.  Her myth is linked to lunar cycles. In the myth, after rejected by Dewi, the giant Kala Rau planed to attack Vishnoloka( dwelling of Vishnu). After Dewi informed Vishnu that the leading rakshasa was Kala, he behe...