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A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator
- bookofjoe 7mo agohttps://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2026/pdf/1743.pdf https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2026/pdf/1743.pdf
- elzbardico 7mo agoI miss the times when I grew up, where such kind of news would inevitably lead to speculations and very detailed artistic impressions of what a human colony in Mercury's terminator zone would look like.
- jauco 7mo agoOne of my favourite (dutch) children’s books is “400 degrees in the shade” which explores exactly that. A human colony sticking to the terminator. (It’s quite dystopian though) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7697564-400-graden-in-de-schaduw https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7697564-400-graden-in...
- darkerside 7mo agoHow many dumb ideas that we had as kids turn out to be good
- aaron695 7mo ago[dead]
- bell-cot 7mo agoCool - but "A Mercury Rover Could ..." presupposes a soft landing on Mercury. Try asking an aerospace engineer about the delta-v requirements for that. Mercury has no atmosphere - so you can't aerobrake, as we do on Mars.
- runako 7mo agoAbsolution Gap[1] has a plot device similar to this. If you like hard sci-fi, Reynolds belongs in your queue. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolution_Gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolution_Gap