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Old 14-04-2013, 08:14 AM
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Interesting thought Matthew,

Some relevant stuff here

I am not sure how Mercury behaves during its freezing process - in terms of expansion and distortion, but also in terms of any crystallising and how its reflectivity changes.
These properties might make it difficult.

Keeping moisture vapour away at -39C might be difficult !
Not to mention the ongoing costs costs of a cryo system.

It does evaporate into space though, so putting one at the L points wont work either.

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=7968.0

Seems they have a new option that is a spinning liquid of molten ionic salt but still near room temp that is Silver coated

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news..._liquidmirror/

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