What role will Mercury play once Humanity becomes a space faring race and establishes a civilization that spans the solar system? It could become the industrial center of such a civilization because of its light gravity, material resources, and plentiful solar energy that can be concentrated to achieve very high temperatures or converted into almost unlimited quantities of electrical energy. One can envision robotic factories turning out space ships and components needed to assemble vast space settlements.
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Roy, K. (2015). Terraforming mercury. In Inner Solar System: Prospective Energy and Material Resources (pp. 421–435). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19569-8_20
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