Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Most of the surface features here are named after historical and mythological women. For example, two of the largest land features are named after Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of fertility, war, love and sex, and Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of love, beauty and procreation. One of the very few men among the women is James Clerk Maxwell, noted physicist and mathematician. Which place are we talking about?

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