extreme-environment

Updated: May 7, 2025

This means that on one side the sun is continuously in the sky for a thousand hours, pouring down unceasing heat, while the other side is in shadow. You sleep eight hours, and when you get up and go outside in an insulated vehicle, or an extreme-environment suit you find that the shadows have moved only an inch or so, and it's that much hotter.

H. Beam Piper - Four-Day Planet