The support for DPNSS as BT's own signaling protocol also differentiated BT's private circuit ’ s services from those of its emerging rival Mercury Communications.

JPL also led the way in interplanetary exploration with the Mariner missions to Venus, Mars, and Mercury.

Multiple fuel Evinrude and Mercury Racing engines also burn kerosene, as well as jet fuel.

Mercury may also refer to:

Mission Critical IT, a software company, has also been using Mercury since 2000 to develop enterprise applications

Mercury also has a strong foreign language interface, allowing code in other languages ( depending on the chosen back-end ) to be linked with Mercury code.

Mercury is also the name of the innermost planet of the Solar System, which moves faster than any other

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

The Titan missile was also considered for use for later Mercury missions ; however, the Mercury program was terminated before these missions were flown.

The Mercury program also used a Scout rocket for a single flight, Mercury-Scout 1, which was intended to launch a small satellite designed to evaluate the worldwide Mercury Tracking Network.

It was also the first spacecraft to encounter two planets at close range, and for 33 years the only spacecraft to photograph Mercury in closeup.

Orbits for the other planets were also calculated, by, but only the eccentricity data for Earth and Mercury are available online.

A third live album and video, A Show of Hands ( 1989 ), was also released by Anthem and Mercury following the Power Windows and Hold Your Fire tours, demonstrating the aspects of Rush in the ' 80s.

Discovery also carried Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who was 77 at the time, back into space during STS-95 on October 29, 1998, making him the oldest person to go into space.

It is also one of the possible ways that Mars has lost most of its atmosphere and that Mercury continually replenishes its tenuous surface-bounded exosphere.

The Mercury II, produced in 1946, also used a rotary shutter.

Tacitus also named the German " Mars " as the primary deity, along with the German " Mercury ", associated with the Germanic custom of the disposal of the spoils of war ; as practiced from the 4th century BC to the 6th century AD.

Mercury, however, fell in love with Larunda and made love to her on the way ; this act has also been interpreted as a rape.

Mercury was also considered a god of abundance and commercial success, particularly in Gaul.

The Romans also made widespread use of small statues of Mercury, probably drawing from the ancient Greek tradition of hermae markers.

Although he was primarily associated with Mercury, Visucius was also sometimes linked to the Roman god Mars, as a dedicatory inscription to " Mars Visucius " and Visucia, Visicius ' female counterpart, was found in Gaul.

Since it stood between the plebeian stronghold on the Aventine and the patrician center on the Palatine, it also emphasized the role of Mercury as a mediator.

Carey was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury in 2005 with the 31st overall pick and played for the Connecticut Sun until her retirement in April 2009.

Much like the early Houston Comets championship teams, the Phoenix Mercury had risen to prominence led by their own " Big Three " of Cappie Pondexter, Diana Taurasi, and Penny Taylor.

Players like Candace Parker of the Sparks, Maya Moore of the Lynx, DeWanna Bonner, and Samantha Prahalis of the Mercury, Angel McCoughtry of the Dream, Sylvia Fowles of the Sky, Tina Charles of the Sun, and Liz Cambage of the Shock brought a new level of excitement to the game, adding talent to the teams of young veterans such as Diana Taurasi, Seimone Augustus and Cappie Pondexter.

Game 4 came down to the final seconds, but the Mercury edged out the Shock 77 – 76, with Cappie Pondexter scoring 26 points, and forced a Game 5 in Detroit.

All-star guard Cappie Pondexter was traded to the New York Liberty amid some controversy in the offseason ; All-Star Candice Dupree joined the duo of Taurasi and Penny Taylor as the Mercury looked to repeat in 2010.

Led by newly signed high scorer Cappie Pondexter ( formerly of the Phoenix Mercury ) and the 2010 Most Improved Player Award winner Leilani Mitchell, the team made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they lost to the Atlanta Dream.

At opposition to or conjunction with the Sun, aberration is 20. 5 ″ while light-time correction varies from 4 ″ for Mercury to 0. 37 ″ for Neptune ( the Sun's light-time correction is less than 0. 03 ″).

Mercury is the only elemental metal with a known melting point lower than caesium.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

" In addition, the element Earth is associated with Budha or Mercury who represents communication, business, mathematics and other practical matters.

They told Columbanus it was intended as a sacrifice to their god Wodan ( Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine ), whom they identified with Roman Mercury.

For Daytona 1967, two Mk II models ( chassis 1016 and 1047 ) were fitted with Mercury 7. 0 liter engines.

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

Similarly, Brooks was influenced by 1970s-era rock of Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen and the operatic rock of Queen with Freddie Mercury.

Another, dressed as Mercury, tests for life-signs with a heated " wand "; once confirmed as dead, the body is dragged from the arena.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

Remotely guided space probes have flown by all of the planets of the Solar System from Mercury to Neptune, with the New Horizons probe currently en route to fly by the dwarf planet Pluto and the Dawn spacecraft en route to the dwarf planet Ceres.

In 1964, figuring his deal with King was at an end, Brown and fellow Famous Flame Bobby Byrd formed the production company, Fair Deal, linking the operation to a new label, Mercury imprint Smash Records.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante meets the spirit of Justinian in the Heaven of Mercury, among the other blessed souls whose earthly ambitions were imperfectly aligned with the Divine Will.

We would dismiss it with some portentous words of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his observations on Browne's religio Medici: ' I have much ado to believe what he speaketh confidently ; that he is more beholding to Morpheus for learned and rational as well as pleasing dreams, than to Mercury for smart and facetious conceptions '.

In this story, the coldest place concerned is the dark side of Mercury, which at the time the story was written was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun ( it was found to rotate in a 2: 3 resonance after Niven received payment for the story, but before it was published ).

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

* 1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board.

The official implementation, the Melbourne Mercury Compiler, is available for most Unix platforms, including Mac OS X, as well as for Microsoft Windows ( in Windows, it requires one of the Cygwin or MinGW toolsets, and can be compiled either with GCC or Microsoft Visual C ++).

This makes Mercury a useful high-level language for targeting multiple platforms, or for linking with code written using multiple back-ends.