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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Jan 8 2007, 06:21 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 24-December 06 Member No.: 1512 |
This might be a topic for a new thread, but since I'm new, I'll just ask my question here.
Apollo Astronaut has advocated an idea of mining Helium-3 from the lunar surface, since we believe that the solar wind impacting the surface of the moon for billions of year should implant this material into the surface matarial. I've done some reading at it appears the certian minerial are more likely to contain the Helium-3 then others (illiment being one that I recall.) So, here is my question. Assuming engineers can develop a Helium-3 fusion reactor and mining He-3 becomes worthwhile, wouldn't Mercury --being closer to the sun-- contain much more Helium-3 then the moon? I've not seen anything writen about this. Is this a correct idea. Could we mine He-3 from Mercury? |
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