5 of the 10 Biggest Reasons Why You Wouldn’t Want to Visit Mercury
Episode 1 of our Solar System
We’ve all heard that Earth is a paradise planet…or at least it was prior to the Industrial Revolution. We’re told that we live in the Goldilocks Zone, an area just right for the advent and sustainability of life. With high praise like that, who’d want to be anywhere else?
Well, with recent strides being made in the field of recreational space exploration, it might soon be feasible to explore one of the other bodies in our solar system to see if there’s some place more fun than here. The problem is, even if it becomes possible to travel in space, there are still a myriad of reasons why you might not want to go to another planet.
10. Mercury Has No Atmosphere
That’s right, the planet closest to the Sun has nothing for you to breathe. Sure, it has a thin exosphere that it gets from solar wind and meteoroid bombardments, and some of those atoms are the familiar oxygen, sodium, hydrogen, helium, and potassium that we all know and love, but they don’t really stick around. In fact, those gas molecules either escape off into the void or are blasted away by more solar…
