Apollo & Apollo Crater - Paris, France - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

Apollo is the Greek & Roman God of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, medicine, healing, plague, music, poetry, arts, archery, and more.
This bronze sculpture depicts him as a young man, naked, standing with his arms at his sides as if he were about to start walking. His hair is short...and in a modern style in contrast to the classical way that Apollo is usually seen.
The artist Paul Belmondo (1898-1982). The plaque indicates the date as 1988...which must mean that is the installation date since the artist died in 1982.
Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:
"The cult centers of Apollo in Greece, Delphi and Delos, date from the 8th century BCE. The Delos sanctuary was primarily dedicated to Artemis, Apollo's twin sister. At Delphi, Apollo was venerated as the slayer of Pytho. For the Greeks, Apollo was all the Gods in one and through the centuries he acquired different functions which could originate from different gods. In archaic Greece he was the "prophet", the oracular god who in older times was connected with "healing". In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil."


Concerning the crater, Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:
"Apollo is an enormous impact crater located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. This formation dwarfs the large crater Oppenheimer that is located next to the western rim. The crater Barringer lies across the northern wall. To the southeast is the crater Anders, and Kleymenov is just to the east of the rim.

Apollo is a double-ringed walled plain whose inner ring is roughly half the diameter of the outer wall. Both the outer wall and the interior have been heavily worn and eroded by subsequent impacts, so that significant parts of the outer and inner walls now consist of irregular and incised sections of mountainous arcs."

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