Mercury (planet) Mercury (planet) Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its orbital period around the Sun of 87.97 days is the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger of the gods. Like Venus, Mercury orbits the Sun within Earth's orbit as an "inferior planet", and never exceeds 28° away from the Sun. When viewed from Earth, this proximity to the Sun means the planet can only be seen near the western or eastern horizon during the early evening or early morning. At this time it
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet used incidental effects shots from "Planeta Bur"). Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue shot their scenes in half a day using the same costumes and on the same set as "Queen of Blood". While Harrington considered "Queen of Blood" good enough to keep his name on, he is credited in this film as "John Sebastian", derived from Johann Sebastian Bach. In a retrospective on Soviet science fiction film, British director Alex Cox called "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" "an act of cinematic cannibalism." Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 American science fiction film, one