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> I am all for Mars, 100% I recall a pretty good article shared here a while ago about how Mars makes no sense as a target compared to Mercury. You can put peo
by a8da6b0c91d 12y ago
> I am all for Mars, 100%
I recall a pretty good article shared here a while ago about how Mars makes no sense as a target compared to Mercury. You can put people on the dark/light edge of Mercury and find a pretty good temperature. A tiny solar panel can generate gobs of power. There are minerals worth mining on Mercury.
Because Mars has no magnetosphere all habitable structures will have to be well underground to protect against radiation. It's really not more habitable compared to other solid bodies as you might expect.
- kalms 12y ago"Because it has almost no atmosphere to retain heat, Mercury's surface experiences the greatest temperature variation of all the planets, ranging from 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night to 700 K (427 °C; 800 °F) during the day at some equatorial regions." — From Wikipedia. That doesn't really sound like pleasent temperature fluctuations or something that is easy to work with?
- a8da6b0c91d 12y agoYou can set up on the poles where it's steady.