Messenger of the gods is what mercury means.

水星意思是上帝。

Mercury's nearness to the sun makes it an especially difficult planet to study.

水星离太阳很近，这让水星研究难度很高。

It orbits 11 times closer to its star than Mercury does to our sun.

该行星围绕恒星运行轨道比水星绕太阳运行要近11倍左右。

We're finding planets bigger than Jupiter, smaller than mercury.

我们找到了比木星大，比水星小行星。

It orbits the Sun once every 88 days.

水星公转周期是88天。

And that's also why we see undergo phases.

这就是我们能看到水星经历不同相原因。

So why are Mercury in Venus bereft of moons?

么为什么金星上水星没有卫星呢？

Venus and Mercury have no confirmed moons.

金星和水星没有被确认卫星。

That first image ever acquired from orbit around Mercury was amazing.

从环绕水星轨道上得第一张图像令人惊叹。

They include Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream and PJ Harvey, this won the prize twice.

者包括北极猴子乐队、原始呐喊乐队和得过两次水星音乐PJ哈维。

Previous Mercury Prize Winners have gone on the international success.

此前水星音乐者都在国际上得了成功。

Now Mercury has quite a complex orbit.

水星公转轨道有点复杂。

But you can calculate Mercury's orbit very precisely using only Newton's laws of gravity.

但是，只要用牛顿引力定律我们就能精确地算出水星轨道。

In 14 days the Mercury 7 will be here for training.

最多再过14天 水星计划7名成员就要来受训了。

The Mercury 7 prototype has arrived for testing.

水星计划模拟雏形机到了 预备开始测试。

On May fifth, nineteen sixty-one, a Friday, Alan Shepard struggled once again into his Mercury capsule.

1961年5月5日，星期五，艾伦·谢泼德再次挣扎着进入他水星太空舱。

And the strange effects on mercury's orbit was later explained by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

水星轨道上奇怪效应后来被爱因斯坦广义相对论解释了。

To a great extent, the Mercury astronauts were literally flying by the seat of their pants.

很大程度上，我们可以说水星计划宇航员是依靠自己渴望和热情才坐上了飞行舱。

Flying in space next to Young, Project Mercury veteran Gus Grissom.

杨同伴是水星任务中老手加斯·格里森。

Plus it's really close to its star much, much closer than even Mercury is to our sun.

而且它离它所环绕恒星非常近，甚至比水星离太阳距离还要近。