A pediment is the highly visible and memorable “triangle” found above porticos — two-story porches — doorways, windows and dormers. Developed by ancient Greeks as the decorative end to a ...

Its most identifiable element is a colossal Greek temple front employing the details of the Doric, Ionic or Corinthian order, with columns supporting a full entablature and a low pitch pediment.

The temple pediment is one of the most famous discoveries from Roman Britain; it is filled with emblems and was full of meaning to all who saw it. The most notable feature is that of the Gorgon's ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover recently conquered its steepest ever slope, making it to the top of an area called the Greenheugh Pediment, a sheet of rock at the top of a hill. This made the perfect ...

Curiosity crested a promontory called the Greenheugh Pediment on March 6, showing considerable perseverance in the process. (Perseverance, by the way, is the name of NASA's next Mars rover ...