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How to protect a settlement on Mercury from solar flares and coronal mass ejections?

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There is a settlement moving along the terminator line on Mercury: I can build it within $\pm 2^{o}$ of the terminator, that is, in the daylight side or the night side. There are going to be lots of solar flares, storms and coronal mass ejection to deal with. There will be dust storms as well, and space debris that may be oncoming. How should all of this be dealt with. I don't believe Mercury's magnetosphere is strong enough.

  • Could there be some sort of plasma shield built around the settlement?
  • Would a Faraday cage around the settlement work?

Please make suggestions"”the year is 2085, so a lot of technology that might not be available now, or is currently in development, will be available then.

I would appreciate any and all comments on this.

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