Mercury trailblazer melts instantly, Dupe vanishes

I've just found this thread because I was having the same issue (although I didn't understand why before reading this) in a vanilla Spaced Out game. I don't know if it should be considered a bug or something else, but it doesn't feel like expected behavior, especially the "silent disappearing of dupe" part of it, having a corpse (noted as died from destroyed trailblazer) or something could already make it feel like normal behavior. Like I understand both why you can build the trailblazer out of mercury AND why it shouldn't really work in the end, but it's also weird to have it fail that way. Possibly the pod could be prevented from temperature change until it's fully landed?

Anyway hope to hear back from this thread some day, thanks for all the good work :)