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5 days ago · e. In Greek mythology, Prometheus ( / prəˈmiːθiəs /; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") [1] is one of the Titans and a god of fire. [2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge, and ...
- Prometheus (Disambiguation)
Astronomy and spaceflight. Prometheus (moon), a moon of...
- Flood Story
"The Deluge", frontispiece to Gustave Doré's illustrated...
- Prometheus (Disambiguation)
3 days ago · Saturn has seven moons large enough to be round: in order of increasing distance from Saturn, they are Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Iapetus. Titan is the largest and the only one with a Moon-like gravity: it is the only moon in the Solar System to have a dense atmosphere and is rich in carbon-bearing compounds, suggesting ...
2 days ago · She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis, and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest, and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. Other offspring and the castration of Uranus
6 days ago · Definitions of Iapetus. noun. (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology. see more. see less. example of: Titan. (Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus; the Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth)
Apr 10, 2024 · Iapetus Bright and Dark Terrains. Saturn's outermost large moon, Iapetus, has a bright, heavily cratered icy terrain and a dark terrain, as shown in this Voyager 2 image taken on August 22, 1981. Amazingly, the dark material covers precisely the side of Iapetus that leads in the direction of orbital motion around Saturn (except for the poles ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Paleozoic Era, major interval of geologic time that began 538.8 million years ago with the Cambrian explosion, an extraordinary diversification of marine animals, and ended about 252 million years ago with the end- Permian extinction, the greatest extinction event in Earth history.
Apr 15, 2024 · GPMDB v. 4.6b is the latest version of the ever-popular IAGA paleomagnetic database that was released in June 2011 and includes a global compilation of paleomagnetic poles and directions that have been published up to December 2004, the Australian paleomagnetic results published up to January 2011, and some additional data published in 2005-2010.
