The plannet even though the clostest to the sun it rotates slowely, hence a day is about 2 earth months making one side 400 degrees and one side cold enough for ice. Dont we mus have plants here which could survive those temperatures? plus couldn't assist them to adapt by installing some form of solar filtering. All we would have to do is colonise and concentrate on one small area about the size of a town and make a few trips per year to irrigate it and leave perhaps a tank of h2O in a container modified to reduce evaporation. If this is maintained couldn't over a few hundred years oxgen be built up in its atmosphere? isn't there ice on the night side of mercury? Doesnt it have an unusually stong gravity for its size which could trap its oxygen?
2006-12-13 02:56:29 · 5 answers · asked by B.R.E 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Maybe, just maybe, there could be ice near the north pole (some crater floor never gets sunshine). Probable ice detected by Arecibo Radio-telescope. "The discovery of water at the planet's poles has helped to rekindle interest in spacecraft missions to Mercury. "
However, what little atmosphere there is contains stuff that is not very good for plants (ionised sodium and lithium, for example) nor for humans.
Mercury's gravity is not unusually strong.
Getting water there would cost a fortune (even relative to other costs of space exploration!).
2006-12-13 03:14:31 · answer #1 · answered by Raymond 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mercury is too small to hold an atmosphere and i'm afraid the solar radiation will give an end to all affords you plan to do there.
Venus has an atmosphere but a too high pressure on its surface and too high temperatures.
So i think both inner planets are off the list.
The first acceptable candidate for such plans could be mars.
2006-12-13 03:05:59 · answer #2 · answered by blondnirvana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why didn't I think of this first??!! You are so smart!! I would love to go water those plants at 400 degrees!! Good idea. While I'm at it, I will stick my tongue in the blender. Surely it can withstand the blades.
2006-12-13 03:28:54 · answer #3 · answered by jfahd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to make the trip to Mercury?
It is too hot on the surface of that planet to harbor life as we know it.
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2006-12-13 03:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by tora911 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would be the point in doing all that?
2006-12-13 03:00:50 · answer #5 · answered by tabithap 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋