Let's plan a mercury mission!

[lukeoftheaura]

I suggest our rocket should have baking soda-vinegar powered boosters.

[lajoswinkler]

Mission to mercury?

Or mission to Mercury?

If you're gonna use baking soda and vinegar, you should try the first mission.

[Skyler4856]

A couple of years ago I had to design a manned research outpost of Mercury. Obviously one would utilize the polar ice deposits for housing, oxygen production, and hydration(duh), one would also use solar power in conjunction with geothermal energy...

[Kryten]

A couple of years ago I had to design a manned research outpost of Mercury. Obviously one would utilize the polar ice deposits for housing, oxygen production, and hydration(duh), one would also use solar power in conjunction with geothermal energy...

Solar power won't work near the ice deposits, given they're permanently shaded, and geothermal would be very hard to get working given mercury appears to be geologically dead.

[Skyler4856]

Solar power won't work near the ice deposits, given they're permanently shaded, and geothermal would be very hard to get working given mercury appears to be geologically dead.

http://books.google.com/books?id=j-6s2CXVY7MC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=Geothermal+activity+on+Mercury+planet&source=bl&ots=IVwdTCGBfA&sig=l2xoE1OaQvs3WfGtD1qr1nOaUOM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ou4-VJDTI8mUgwS74YHwCQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Geothermal%20activity%20on%20Mercury%20planet&f=false

Peaks of eternal light have been theorized, and have been neither denied nor confirmed.

[Will Fawkes]

If nothing else you could probably build a structure to achieve the same effect. My worry is if the materials can handle it or not for long periods.