When will the first successful soft landing of a spacecraft on Mercury happen?
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To my surprise, humanity has only ever landed one thing there, and it was a crash landing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landings_on_extraterrestrial_bodies
Apparently there is an ESA/JAXA mission arriving there this year, but that's just a pair of orbiters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo
Maybe the fact that it's the mostest closest might help?
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@TheAllMemeingEye it's not proximity but delta v, is my uneducated guess slowing down is delta v as well
@JussiVilleHeiskanen yeah if memory serves me correctly Mercury is actually less hot than Venus since no atmosphere to capture heat
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