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
Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and the 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet" (which itself drew its plot loosely from "The Tempest"). It was billed as "Shakespeare's forgotten rock and roll masterpiece". "Return to the Forbidden Planet" started life with the Bubble Theatre Company as a production for open-air performance in a tent. A revised version of the musical opened, indoors, at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the mid-1980s. It later moved to the Tricycle Theatre in London. After some rework