Poem for Mars

What can be said about the God of War?
He is the hardest to write a poem for
His only followers are panic and dread
If he got inside your head -
You were dead
His sphere aptly colored red
He left a wake of rotting corpses
Ruled his servants with fear and terror
His punishment for disobedience swift
Make no mistake
Mons Olypics (The largest mountain in our Solar System) is glorified on your surface, also, the deepest valley, larger (& longer) than the Grand Canyon also honored there
Your surface bears the scars of battle like the back of Achilles scales and rupes like canals....

News:

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight into early Sunday morning and if the sky above you is clear you are sure to enjoy a spectacular astronomical show. While the meteors are the main billing tonight, there are a few other players on the stellar stage. Look to the east early tomorrow morning before dawn as Jupiter, then the moon and finally Venus will rise, creating a nice diagonal line. Of course with any of these events in the sky the weather is the most important variable. It won't matter how great the meteors are if it's overcast. Much of Texas, the Ohio Valley, Tennessee, the northern parts of Alabama, Mississippi and the Rockies look to have favorable sky conditions. parts of Florida and a good deal of the West Coast will also be mainly clear.

This Sunday, August 5, The U.S. Is LANDING ON MARS!!

Images of Venus in Art

Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) The Birth of Venus, Oil on canvas,1863, 51 1/8 x 88 1/2 inches (130 x 225 cm) Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

Symbol for Venus

Images of Venus

VENUS DATA

Origin of Name : [Roman] After the ancient Italian Goddess of spring and vegetation. The Romans later identified her with the Greek Goddess, Aphrodite; The Goddess of erotic and sensual love, also beauty. Aphrodite presided over, "rapture, embraces and caresses, wherever she walked, flowers sprang up and sparrows and doves flew about her." - Hesiod
aka : Aphrodite [Greek]
Symbol : (see insert) this symbol also is the symbol for Women
Sex : F, Planet No. : 2, Mean Dis : 108,200,000km, 67,200,000miles, A.U. : .72, Range : .72-.73 A.U., Dia : 12,108km 7,523miles, Comp : nickel-iron, silicates, Color : yellow, creamy-yellow, Mass* : .81, Gravity* : .91, Length of Rotation : 5,831 hours ( 243 days : Venus' days are longer than her year.) Length of Revolution : 224.7 days (@ a speed of 35km per sec) Atmosphere : thick CO2 (97%) H2 SO4 (Sulphuric acid clouds) plus small amounts of neon and argon nitrogen, Temp : 460 C (865 F) Day, Discovery : known since early Sumerian and Babylonian astrologers., Exploration : (see additional blog), Light/Time Dis : 6.01 min
*(that of Earth)

A Poem For Venus

VENUS (The Ultimate Femme-Fatale)

A Planet of Mystery
Earth's Sister
The morning star
Like a woman
An enigma, alluring
Veiled under a yellow cloud
If we lift the veil
A Planet of Women
Is revealed:
A vast plateau to the north
Is called Ishtar Terra
(The Babylonian Goddess of Love,
Fertility and Regeneration)
This is Ishtar's Reign
Another landmass is named
Aphrodite
(Greek Goddess of Sensual Love)
A Caldera is entitled Eve
A Monte; Rhea
After the Wife of Saturn
A Chasma is named Diana
(Goddess of the Hunt and
The Moon)
Venus,
Like any woman
Is unique and independent
Goddesses are a minority among Gods
She also revolves around The Sun
In her own way : retrograde
The Ultimate Femme-Fatale
Of Dawn and Dusk Skies
Her Beautiful and Mysterious atmosphere
Is a death trap
Of sulfuric acid,
carbon dioxide, neon
and argon nitrogen
Droplets of sulfuric acid
Continuously rain
In a thick atmosphere
With an air pressure of 90 times
That of Earth
She crushes the
Probes that
Are sent to her
Broken like Cupid's arrows.