words on planets

I did not know that Astronomy Picture of the Day is mirrored in multiple languages. (That list misses at least one: romanised Russian.) I stumbled onto the mirrors while seeking the origin of the name of a feature on Venus. Ought to have remembered to try the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, which says Atete is a fertility goddess of Ethiopia.

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