Landing on Mercury on equator at perihelion |
Landing on Mercury on equator at perihelion |
Mar 21 2006, 12:18 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: 20-March 06 Member No.: 720 |
How will it be to make a manned landing at Mercury at its closest to the sun (perihelion) on its equator when the sun is in the zenith ,what are the dangers of a landing then? Do we need to be protected against the sunheat and radiation then? How strong is the heat and radiation of the sun then ,and is it dangerous when the solaractivity is high then? What kind of spacesuits do we need then? Better protected suits than we have used on the apollo moonlandings i think. Can you explain how a landing on Mercury will be when it is at perihelion and land on its equator with the sun directly overhead? I hope it will ever happen. Lets start discuss about it.
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Nov 12 2006, 03:44 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 23-October 06 Member No.: 1277 |
about Mercury having been a moon of Venus..
I have seen several articles that asume that Mercury did experience a terror impact itself early in it's history, blowing a lot of the material of the original planet away. therefor the iron core is too big for the size of the planet and it would explane it's orbit Any moons that came from this impact fell down to the planet, or into the sun It could also explain the sudden rise in impacts on the moon and the earth 4by ago http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0601...it_and_run.html http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Early_Me...ered_Earth.html |
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