There was a time people thought Mercury would have some “twilight” acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.
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CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 year agoI mean, nothing on Mercury survives. At night it’s -170 degrees Celsius and +430 degrees at day.
Lyrl@lemm.ee 1 year ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So we just need movable habitats like in Howl’s Moving Castle or Mortal Engines
Welt@lazysoci.al 1 year ago
Those are some mercurial tempera…tures