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
Back on the Planet Back on the Planet Back on the Planet is a studio album by American hip hop producer Ras G. It was released on Brainfeeder in 2013. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, "Back on the Planet" received an average score of 70 based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Bram E. Gieben of "The Skinny" called the album "a perfect, psychedelic hybrid of dusty LA beat-scene boom-bap and the cosmic jazz excursions of the Sun Ra Arkestra." Daryl Keating of "Exclaim!" said: "Paradoxically fusing ancient, grinding rhythms and ultra-modern, plush beats,