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Sihtu Planitia is a
large plain on Mercury,
approximately 565 km across. It was
named in 2017 by the IAU. The
crater Calvino lies at the
center of the...
- and he
narrowly escaped death in the
stampede to
return home. A raid, or
šiḫṭu,
commemorated in a
kudurru created during his
reign describes a successful...
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planets Nebēru (Jupiter),
Dilbat (Venus),
Šiḫṭu (Mercury), Kayamānu (Saturn), and Ṣalbatānu (Mars). Anu
almost never appears...
- word for
Mercury Papsukkal Planitia -16.25 271.63
Akkadian messenger god
Sihtu Planitia -2.82 55.57
Babylonian word for the
planet Mercury Sobkou Planitia...
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after the
Italian writer Italo Calvino.
Calvino lies in the
center of
Sihtu Planitia, and Rūdaki
crater is to the east.
Mariner 10
image of Calvino...
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heavenly bodies,
including the Sun, Moon, and the five
visible planets:
Šiḫṭu (Mercury),
Dilbat (Venus), Ṣalbatānu (Mars),
White Star (Jupiter), and Kayyāmānu...
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Approximate color image of
southwestern part of the
quadrangle including Sihtu Planitia and
Renoir crater, by MESSENGER...
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images led to the
conclusion that
these plains near Rūdaki, now
called Sihtu Planitia, were
formed by
volcanic flows on the
surface of Mercury. "Volcanic...
