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 9 2007, 02:25 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I think that JR's analysis was right on, if nihilistic (reality can be that way! ) The only use I can think of for Mercury is something like what's happening to the California desert right now. Mercury may be colonized if there's literally no place else left to go in the Solar System in the distant future.
This would of course depend heavily on three rather unlikely background conditions: high-speed economical interplanetary space transportation (propulsion method unknown), one or more extremely prosperous human cultures that have already colonized everywhere else, and truly fearsome population pressure. EDIT: Heck, let me add one more precondition: Human interstellar travel must be utterly infeasible. If it were, then better real estate would surely be accessible... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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