Mercury

Mercury

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. Its proximity to the Sun makes it an extremely hot world with dramatic temperature variations between day and night sides. Despite harsh conditions, Mercury hosts 8 possible habitation sites in the game.

Basic Information

Parameter	Value
Diameter	4,987.4 km
Orbits	Sol (Sun)
Orbital Period	88 Earth days
Distance from Sun	0.39 AU
Atmosphere	Extremely thin, almost vacuum
Habitation Sites	8
Satellites	None
Available Orbits	Low Mercury Orbit Medium Mercury Orbit High Mercury Orbit Extreme Mercury Orbit

Mining Sites

Notes:

• Negative values are not a bug, the game actually sets the median to a negative value to make it incredibly unlikely for the site to have a positive mine output. But note that the actual mined amount cannot actually be negative.
• Blank values indicate that the site can never produce this resource. In contrast, 0 indicates that there is still up to 50% chance for the site to produce the resource.
• Values shown do not take into account the final capping of the Noble Metals output to just 1/2 or 1/3 of the Base Metals output.
• Top 50% Mean is the average value of the top 50% of possible rolls. It is also a much looser estimate than the median because it cannot handle edge cases such as where the mininum value is too close to the median value.

MedianTop 50% Mean

Site Name	Parent Body	Mining Profile	Max Hab Tier	Median Resources (after Mass/Density Modifiers)
Suisei Planitia	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Chao Meng-Fu Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Alver Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Tolkien Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Prokofiev Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Tung Yuan Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Adventure Rupes	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Boccaccio Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0	5	50	10	0
Total: 8 Hab Sites				0	40	400	80	0

Site Name	Parent Body	Mining Profile	Max Hab Tier	Estimated Top 50% Mean Resources (after Mass/Density Modifiers)
Suisei Planitia	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Chao Meng-Fu Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Alver Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Tolkien Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Prokofiev Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Tung Yuan Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Adventure Rupes	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Boccaccio Crater	Mercury	Mercury Polar	4	0.556	5.556	56.429	12.5	1
Total: 8 Hab Sites				4.444	44.444	451.429	100	8

Strategic Value

Mercury's proximity to the Sun makes it excellent for solar power generation. Its habitation sites provide valuable metals deposits despite the extreme conditions.|

All Mercury orbits, and several hab sites, experience dangerous radiation, requiring extra metal costs to protect colonists.