give me the reasons why and if you have any information that is about mercury that would help to ....This is for a project......
thank you oh so very much!
2007-12-17 10:42:05 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
King gave you a good answer, but I wonder if he's with some interplanetary travel agency.
Look for the small print. Mercury has temperature extremes of the worst kind. It ranges fro -300 degrees F, at night, to 765 degrees F, at midday. If I was sent there I would wonder what horrible thing I did to earn that.
Sarah, don't buy any lake-front property from that guy.
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2007-12-17 11:07:43 · answer #1 · answered by Brant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly I would. I would have to be careful of thermal management, because with no air everything would be very hot on the sunlit side and very cold on the shadow side. This would be a little more extreme on Mecury than, say in earth orbit, because the hot side would be a lot hotter. I think the sun would dominate the sky, although as mentioned above, you could see other stars and planets because the sky would be black. The landscape is desolate - probably more so than the moon because there are more craters - due to its proximity to the sun's gravity well (i.e. the sun pulls a lot of objects toward it - many would hit Mercury on the way). Since the resonance of the planet's rotation to its orbital period is 3/2 (the planet rotates 3 times during each (added) 2 orbits, the craters should be roughly evenly distributed, regardless of where we land.
Good luck.
2007-12-17 11:17:11 · answer #2 · answered by Larry454 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure-lets go-If an explorer were to step onto the surface of Mercury, he would discover a world resembling lunar terrain. Mercury's rolling, dust-covered hills have been eroded from the constant bombardment of meteorites. Fault-cliffs rise for several kilometers in height and extend for hundreds of kilometers. Craters dot the surface. The explorer would notice that the Sun appears two and a half times larger than on Earth; however, the sky is always black because Mercury has virtually no atmosphere to cause scattering of light. As the explorer gazes out into space, he might see two bright stars. One appearing as cream colored Venus and the other as blue colored Earth.
2007-12-17 10:49:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because it would be tooooooo hot unless, since you said in the future, if they invented something that would keep you cold.
2007-12-18 07:54:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋