Much like Dangerfield, however, the Comet Cyclone was actually ... before the Mercury could ever get going. Mercury had actually envisioned the '70 Spoiler to be the high-performance trim of ...
Mercury redesigned the Comet in 1964, but in addition to the new look, the big news this year was the introduction of the top-of-the-line Cyclone trim level. Considered a performance-oriented ...
NASA and ESA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft snapped a video of the comet as it passed three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than ...
while the head of the comet (called the coma) easily rivaled the planet Mercury — which was then shining at magnitude -0.3 — in brightness. The comet reached perihelion on Jan. 13 at around ...
That's about 40% closer than the planet Mercury. The sun might burn the comet up, making us the first, last, and only humans to ever see it. But if the ball of space ice survives its fiery flyby ...