Bell designed and built the Reaction Control system for Project Mercury's Redstone command module and a similar system was incorporated into the North American X-15 space plane.

Mercury is a Ford Motor Company division, and Mercury's 427 was exactly the same engine as Ford's with different logos.

Although Mercury's full-size and mid-size sedans performed well in the marketplace, the division phased out smaller cars completely in favor of minivans and SUVs.

As the 1990s progressed into the 2000s, Mercury's compact car line shrank during a series of redesigns.

After PolyGram was absorbed into the Universal Music Group, Mercury's pop / rock unit was dissolved, but its country unit remained.

" However, not everyone was complimentary about the change in musical style, with Robert Christgau of The Village Voice stating " If you thought they were bad when they were cute, or even that they were cute when they were good, believe me, you don't want to hear them mature ," and NME with the even harsher verdict: " But damn those cruel hormones – Hanson's collective balls have MmmDropped, and the giddy rush of adolescence seeks to mutate Mercury's finest investment into a trio of crack-voiced hulks.

* August 3 – NASA's MESSENGER is launched ( it was captured into Mercury's orbit on March 18, 2011 ).

It has been a year since the events in Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, and in that time a government-funded research project, Project Light, is built at the astronomical observatory on Mercury's north pole to conduct research into the newly-discovered sub-etheric optics in hope of transmitting solar energy through hyperspace.

Like the Earth, Moon and Mars, Mercury's geologic history is divided up into eras.

BeatBox was incorporated into Mercury's Real User Monitor ( RUM ) product, which is now part of HP Business Availability Center.

At the time of the announcement of Mercury's closure, Mercury was selling fewer than 95, 000 units a year, which is less than both Plymouth and Oldsmobile right before they were phased out.

The radius of the planet's orbit is 7 million kilometres, about 0. 047 astronomical units, or one eighth the radius of Mercury's orbit.

The Solar Orbiter will make observations of the Sun from distances as close as 60 solar radii ( R < sub > S </ sub >), or 0. 284 astronomical units ( AU ), placing it inside Mercury's perihelion of 0. 3075 AU.

This anomalous rate of precession of the perihelion of Mercury's orbit was first recognized in 1859 as a problem in celestial mechanics, by Urbain Le Verrier.

Relativistic effects cease to be negligible when near very massive bodies ( as with the precession of Mercury's orbit about the Sun ), or when extreme precision is needed ( as with calculations of the orbital elements and time signal references for GPS satellites.

( Planets ' gravitational fields, as of 2011, are well-described by linearized gravity except for Mercury's perihelion precession ; so strong-field effects — any effects of gravity beyond lowest nonvanishing order in φ / c < sup > 2 </ sup >— have not been observed even in the gravitational fields of planets and main sequence stars ).

Measurements of Mercury's exosphere, which is practically a vacuum, revealed more ions derived from water than scientists had expected .< ref > from the WayBackMachine archive of < nowiki > http :// www. planetary. org / news </ nowiki > for 13 October 2008 ; the MESSENGER selection under PLANETARY NEWS </ ref > All of these observations are consistent with water ice and / or other volatiles being available to hypothetical far future colonists of Mercury.

The issue was resolved in 1915 by Albert Einstein's new theory of general relativity, which accounted for the small discrepancy in Mercury's orbit.

May was also scathing of Prenter, who was Mercury's manager from the early 1980s to 1984, for being dismissive of the importance of radio stations, such as the US networks, and their vital connection between the artist and the community, and for denying them access to Mercury.

The music video for " These Are the Days of Our Lives " contain Mercury's final scenes in front of the camera.

It was constructed from Mercury's final recordings in 1991, featuring tracks such as " Too Much Love Will Kill You " and " Heaven for Everyone ", plus material left over from their previous studio albums.

Following Freddie Mercury's death on 24 November 1991 from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS, the remaining members of Queen ( John Deacon, Brian May and Roger Taylor ) came together with Queen Manager Jim Beach to organise an open air concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Mercury, as well as raise money for AIDS research, and spread awareness about the disease.

Also, Mercury's fairly eccentric orbit makes it much easier to detect the perihelion shift than is the case for the nearly circular orbits of Venus and Earth.

In 1915, when Einstein successfully explained the apparent anomaly in Mercury's orbit, most astronomers abandoned the search for Vulcan.

Mercury's sidereal day is about two-thirds of its orbital period, so by the prograde formula its solar day lasts for two revolutions around the sun — three times as long as its sidereal day.

Instead, it turned out that Mercury has a 3: 2 spin – orbit resonance, rotating three times for every two revolutions around the Sun ; the eccentricity of Mercury's orbit makes this resonance stable.

Westhead's run and gun offense quickly became The Mercury's trademark and the franchise would soon set new league records for points scored.

In 2001, Timms announced her retirement and almost immediately joined the Mercury's television broadcasting crew, a job which she held only for that season.

In 1995, the Mystique was introduced as Mercury's Topaz replacement ; a version of the Ford Mondeo mid-size " world car ", it was commonly viewed as compact for an American car.

There would be few changes to Mercury's mid-sized lineup for the 1969 model year, the last year that the Comet name would grace a mid-sized model.

Additionally, Collectables Records still has the doubled-up Psychedelic Lollipop / Electric Comic Book CD for sale and Mercury's Kaleidoscopic Compendium anthology is still available as well.

Mercury's Nashville unit dates back to 1957, when Mercury formed a joint venture with Starday Records specifically for releasing artists performing country music.

This meant that the capsule had to be protected from reentry heat on all sides, thus explaining the spherical design ( as opposed to Project Mercury's conical design ), which allowed for maximum volume while minimizing the external surface.

The Cougar was important to Mercury's image for many years, and advertising often identified its dealers as being " at the sign of the cat.

In great part because of the search methods used to look for asteroids, there are currently no known asteroids with orbits contained within Venus or Mercury's ( e. g., Vulcanoids ).

M for the Speed of Mercury: By channeling Mercury's speed, Mary Marvel, while not as fast as the Flash, could fly and move at hypersonic speeds exceeding Mach 10 ( 2 miles a second ) while in Earth's atmosphere and could fly at close to light speed through space.

All other programming was networked from Mercury's Crawley HQ.

As well as performing " Heroes " and " All the Young Dudes ", he was joined on " Under Pressure " by Annie Lennox, who took Mercury's vocal part.

Numerical simulations have suggested that the eventual formation of a perihelion secular resonance between Mercury and Jupiter ( g < sub > 1 </ sub >= g < sub > 5 </ sub >) has the potential to greatly increase Mercury's eccentricity and possibly destabilize the inner Solar System several billion years from now.

To put it in the context of early 20th century physics, some scientists found the problems with calculating Mercury's perihelion more troubling than the Michelson-Morley experiment results, and some the other way around.

In the interstellar medium, sodium is identified by the D line ; though it has a high vaporization temperature, its abundance allowed it to be detected by Mariner 10 in Mercury's atmosphere.

Observations of Mercury's polar regions by radar from Earth and the on-going observations of the Messenger Probe have been consistent with water ice and / or other frozen volatiles being present in permanently shadowed areas of craters in Mercury's polar regions.

Also general relativity was confirmed many times, the classic experiments being the perihelion precession of Mercury's orbit, the deflection of light by the Sun, and the gravitational redshift of light.

* Atmosphere of Mercury: 3. 4 %, and large amounts of water in Mercury's exosphere

* 1. 1 · 10 < sup > 22 </ sup > m < sup > 2 </ sup >-area swept by Mercury's orbit around Sun

The word mercurial is commonly used to refer to something or someone erratic, volatile or unstable, derived from Mercury's swift flights from place to place.

He was often accompanied by a cockerel, herald of the new day, a ram or goat, symbolizing fertility, and a tortoise, referring to Mercury's legendary invention of the lyre from a tortoise shell.

Mercury's temple in the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, was built in 495 BC.

A discrepancy in Mercury's orbit pointed out flaws in Newton's theory.

One of Mercury's most notable performances of The Games final track, " Save Me ", took place in Montreal, and the concert is recorded in the live album, Queen Rock Montreal.

Most of the album was recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in the band's history, and Taylor and May lamented the new sound, with both being very critical of the influence Mercury's personal manager Paul Prenter had on the singer.

After working on various solo projects during 1988 ( including Mercury's collaboration with Montserrat Caballé, Barcelona ), the band released The Miracle in 1989.

After fans noticed Mercury's increasingly gaunt appearance in 1988, rumours began to spread that Mercury was suffering from AIDS.