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If you were on Mercury, would there be a region with a livable temperature?

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If you were on Mercury, would there be a region with a livable temperature?
« on: 28/01/2020 09:07:14 »
Colin wants to know:

Is there a region on Mercury or the moon where the temperature is livable? Like in certain craters or a Twilight zone?

Thoughts?
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Re: If you were on Mercury, would there be a region with a livable temperature?
« Reply #1 on: 28/01/2020 10:18:08 »
If you were prepared to keep moving, the temperature in the twilight zone might be liveable. But too far into the night or day side, and the temperatures become extreme.

A polar crater might be liveable, if you could reflect some light down into it. But then you lose the main resource of unlit craters - deposits of water ice that can be used as sources of oxygen and rocket fuel.

Regardless of the temperature, the lack of an atmosphere is pretty inhospitable.

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