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 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