When it comes to classic cars from the 1950s, I'm a big fan of orphan brands. I usually favor rigs with Hudson, Studebaker, and Packard badges, but a certain Mercury model is also high on my list. I'm ...
The 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator arrived at a moment when Detroit muscle cars were getting louder, cruder and more single minded, yet Mercury tried something different. Instead of building a bare ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus: Eight cars to remember Mercury by
For their debut, Mercury cars wore styling that captured elements of Ford and Lincoln. Power came from a 95-horsepower flathead Ford V8. Unlike Fords, Mercurys featured hydraulic brakes, an important ...
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is proving to be a fascinating world. Not only is it the largest moon in our solar system, bigger than the planet Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, but NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede. The ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface. Ganymede’s ocean is ...
The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. Beyond our own solar system, there ...
Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury. This mammoth moon is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere, and it’s the only world besides Earth that has standing bodies of liquid, including rivers, lakes and seas, on its surface.