Mercury (planet) three weeks, the Sun is almost stationary overhead, and is at its most brilliant because Mercury is at perihelion, its closest to the Sun. This prolonged exposure to the Sun at its brightest makes these two points the hottest places on Mercury. Conversely, there are two other points on the equator, 90 degrees of longitude apart from the first ones, where the Sun passes overhead only when the planet is at aphelion in alternate years, when the apparent motion of the Sun in Mercury's sky is relatively rapid. These points, which are the ones on the equator where the apparent
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women a small piece of it is mine", although in fact his adaptation of the "Planeta Bur" material had much more original material than the other, made by Curtis Harrington. His then-wife Polly Platt worked on the film as a production designer. In a retrospective on Soviet science fiction film, British director Alex Cox compared the movie to "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" and called "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" "equally classic". Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women is a 1968 American science fiction film, one of two which were adapted