Iapetus

One of his first applications of his longitude determinations was used to measure the size of France accurately, and the country turned out to be significantly smaller than first believed. Other accomplishments of Cassini include being the first to observe four of Saturn's moons — Iapetus (1671), Rhea (1672), Tethys (1684) and Dione (1684) — which he called Sidera, Lodoicea, or Louisian Stars, after the French king. Iapetus had variations in brightness, which he accurately ascribed to the presence of dark material on one hemisphere, which is now called Cassini Region in his honor. Jacques Cassini gradually took over his father's duties as head of the Paris…

Around 380 million years ago, during the Devonian Period, North America and Baltica collided. This collision created another mountain range located in the same place where the Grenville Mountains and Taconic Mountains were formed. The Acadian Orogeny happened on the northeastern side of North America. Like TIA and the Grenville Belt, there was another land piece between Proto-North America and Baltica. This land piece was called Avalon. Avalon was believed to have broke apart from…

These were pushed to the surface from an ancient (non-existent anymore) ocean called iapetus. The iapetus was formed from a series of different of events and reasons. One of the reasons was the Earth’s core does not heat the mantle evenly. Since the mantle moves when it’s under pressure, this causes the crust to crack, split and move around. This is called plate tectonics. Two sections of the crust eventually cracked, split to create 2 landforms and then moved apart to create the which filled…

than, he repeated the same process and discovered that the “moons” that he saw have returned. Finally, he just gave in and theorised that they were arms of Saturn instead. That’s when Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens came in to prove his theory wrong. Due to improved telescopes, he was able to realize that they were, in fact, not arm, but a complex ring system. To add onto that, he also discovered one of the largest moons in our system, Titan, which again, is part of greco-roman mythological…

We first heard his name when Hesiod relates Iapetus’ line of descendants with Clymene (cite): “Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bare him a stout-hearted son, Atlas: also she bare very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus the woman, the maiden whom he had formed.”…

I am the best fighter and athlete on the pitiful island. No man or beast in all of Greece can stand up to my might, and saving Mount Olympus will finally give me the recognition I sorely deserve!”. Perseus grimaced, now realizing why the gods had landed him in the presence of this snarky youth. He knew a day like this would come, where Zeus would give him the task of training the next great hero, but why now he chose to do this perplexed Perseus. That was not how his father operated; he realized…

as the atmosphere is primarily composed of nitrogen (like Earth) but with methane clouds and lakes. This methane plays a role on Titan similar to water on Earth. There is some evidence that much of Titan's composition may predate the formation of Saturn and the solar system itself, as these materials to have originated within the interstellar Oort cloud (Dyches 2014). Additional moons include Rhea and Iapetus, both with diameters of approximately fifteen hundred kilometers. Unlike Titan, Rhea…

Thousands of years ago, there was nothing but a primordial God named Chaos which means "the gap" in Greek. He first made the earth and sky. Then he made the sea and a pit of darkness named Tartus. Also he used his powers to make Gaea, the goddess of the earth and another primordial goddess. After years of begging Chaos for a mate, he accepted it out of annoyance or boredom. So, he made Uranus, the god of the sky and Heaven. Together, they had three sets of children: the elder cyclops, the…

explore more about the Cordilleras, I would probably look more at the San Andreas Fault. I’ve always had some interest in it ever since I heard California would detach from the rest of the USA and float away, even if that isn’t true. The Appalachian Orogeny is located on the eastern side of the USA. It has a total strike distance of 3000 Km and consists of three major realms, the Laurentian, Axial, and the Peri-Gondwanan Realm. These realms all have smaller zones within them that were…

followed, if not there will be severe consequences such like Penthus, who refused to follow Dionysus word. The myth is important because it shows the power of a God/Goddess and that no-one is able to escape their wrath. Themes in the Myth The authority of powerful mortals and/or immortals. These Greek Gods believed that their word was final and nothing should be said against it, if not vengeance will ensue. Resurrection is also featured in this story when Dionysus brings back his mother from…