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I mean, nothing on Mercury survives. At night it’s -170 degrees Celsius and +430 degrees at day.
There was a time people thought Mercury would have some “twilight” acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.
So we just need movable habitats like in Howl’s Moving Castle or Mortal Engines
Those are some mercurial tempera…tures