Ep. 686: Ice In The Shadows
Astronomy Cast
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The Power of Permanently Shattered Craters
On Mercury, this is transformative. If you build your habitat within the permanently shattered region, it only has to be designed to keep you warm. And that's a major benefit. You're not directly in that ionizing radiation. Then you have all of these resources there. The top of the permanently shattered crater is likely to have permanently sunny regions where there's so many different ways to generate electricity,. Not just solar power.
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