How did Earth get its name?

So it's time we get to our little blue marble in our little series about how Planets managed to snag the names that they have.

Photo of Earth taken by the Apollo 17 Crew

So Earth, unlike every other planet in our solar system, is the only planet in our system not to actually be named after a Roman god. We actually don't know whom actually coined the first use of naming our planet Earth, only that we have used it to name our planet for roughly 1000 years, but we do however have a history on the word itself. Earth is actually a combination of both English and German which essentially both mean Ground. So essentially we named our planet after the ground on which we stand on! I always found it semi-funny that we named our planet ground since it is mostly made up of water!

Bonus Video:
In spirit of talking about our home I'd like to share a short video from the National Geographic YouTube channel of the ISS showing some beautiful footage of our planet while it orbits around us

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Thanks for reading and keep your eyes on the night sky!

Naming of the Planets: Venus

As stated in my post before this regarding Mercury, many of the planets were quite viewable by the Romans back in the day when there was not much light pollution, but Venus stood out as one of the brightest and most beautiful stars in the night sky!

Photo of Venus in the visible spectrum

Venus to this day is still one of the more beautiful looking planets in our solar system, at least if you ask me! Though it has a certain deadly quality about it with it's run away green house effect, it has a certain beauty to it that I find mesmerizing so I only find it quite accurate that the Roman's named this gem after the Goddess of beauty!

Little fun fact about Venus, we actually originally thought it was going to be a marsh like planet, and around this time we had this theory you had so many movies about Venus pop out of Hollywood! Of course, after further study we came to realize just how wrong and dangerous of a planet it was, but the one thing it still held onto was it's beauty!

Hope you all are enjoying this little series on the planets names and keep your eyes on the night sky!