We found 186 examples of how to use mercury in an English sentence.
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| 1. | Sam, a rhesus monkey, was one of the most well known monkeys of the space program. His name was an acronym for the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. He was launched on December 4, 1959, housed in a cylindrical capsule within the Mercury spacecraft atop a Little Joe rocket in order to test the launch escape system (LES). Approximately one minute into the flight, travelling at a speed of 3685 mph, the Mercury capsule aborted from the Little Joe launch vehicle. After attaining an altitude of 51 miles, the spacecraft landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. Sam was recovered, several hours later, with no ill effects from his journey. | |
| 2. | Mercury travels around the Sun faster than any other planet. That is how it got its name. It was named after Mercury, the swift messenger of the gods in ancient Roman mythology. | |
| 3. | Mercury can only be seen from Earth just before sunrise or just after sunset, but not in the middle of the night. That is because Mercury always appears near the Sun when viewed from Earth. | |
| 4. | Mariner 10 was the first space probe to visit Mercury. It was also the first probe to visit two planets - Venus and Mercury. | |
| 5. | On August 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. It will fly by Earth, Venus, and Mercury itself several times before settling into orbit around our innermost planet in March 2011. | |
| 6. | In 1640, Evagelista Torricelli discovered that air has weight. When experimenting with measuring mercury, he discovered that air put pressure on the mercury. | |
| 7. | Is mercury really a metal? | |
| 8. | We came fearfully close to the Sun's orbit because we launched from the wrong side of Mercury. | |
| 9. | Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals. | |
| 10. | That one over there is Mercury. | |
| 11. | The late Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen, had a vocal range of four octaves. | |
| 12. | The Solar System has four terrestrial or telluric planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. | |
| 13. | The general theory of relativity explains the anomalous perihelion precession of the planet Mercury. | |
| 14. | Mercury is the planet nearest to the sun. | |
| 15. | Tom got mercury poisoning because he ate canned tuna every day. | |
| 16. | Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. | |
| 17. | Mercury is the smallest of the eight planets in the Solar System. | |
| 18. | One of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury. | |
| 19. | Is elemental mercury volatile? | |
| 20. | Enos became the first chimp to orbit the earth on November 29, 1961, aboard a Mercury Atlas rocket. Although the mission plan originally called for three orbits, due to a malfunctioning thruster and other technical difficulties, flight controllers were forced to terminate Enos' flight after two orbits. Enos landed in the recovery area and was picked up 75 minutes after splashdown. He was found to be in good overall condition. | |
| 21. | The inner planets, the closest to the Sun, are solid spheres of rock and include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. | |
| 22. | The temperature on Mercury gets so hot it could melt a tin pan. | |
| 23. | Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system. | |
| 24. | Mercury has a very thin atmosphere. | |
| 25. | Mercury is only about one-third the size of the Earth. It is smaller than any other planet. |