Ciuacoatl Mons [SEP] located on astronomical body
Ciuacoatl Mons
Ciuacoatl Mons is a mountain on Venus. Its name is derived from the Aztec fertility goddess.
various labels e.g. in 2010 a NASA photo caption called it "Gale crater mound". In March 2012, NASA unofficially named it "Mount Sharp", after American geologist Robert P. Sharp.
Since 1919 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has been the official body responsible for planetary nomenclature. Under its long-established rules for naming features on Mars, mountains are named after the Classical albedo feature in which they are located, not after people. In May 2012 the IAU officially named the mountain Aeolis Mons after the