Mercury Colonization
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Mercury Colony

Hot? yes, but apparently cooler than England right now as long as you're a meter below ground in a ring around the poles (how's a constant 21c/70f sound)

this guy's website is so weird but I love the novelty of the idea and he portrays a plausible scenario for it being ultimately more habitable than Mars

  • ajouter [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The voyage to Mercury might take 6.5 years like the MESSENGER trip because of the large velocity change involved

    Mercury orbits at 48 km/s and Earth orbits at 30 km/s for anyone else who was wondering about this.

    Edit: Actually this doesn't tell the whole story...

    The energy our spacecraft needs to shed is on a completely different scale to using brakes to slow down while driving downhill on Earth. Arriving at Mercury travelling slowly enough to be captured by its gravity is a bit like falling down a cliff millions of kilometres high and landing softly on a moving target half way down!

    So yeah you need to go faster to get there, but you'll be going way too fast if you don't spend a bunch of time doing break checks around venus and mercury before getting there