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Effects of Day/Night divide on airflow patterns on a binary planet
I'm currently working on a project with a binary planetary system (both planets are around .8 earth mass with some variation), and naturally, the planets are tidally locked to each other, leading to a ...
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Weather on a Hot Saturn
So, out of curiosity and for the purposes of a roleplay universe I am making, I am curious about the weather on a Hot Saturn. This planet, nearly identical in mass, composition and size to Saturn, is ...
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How much time is needed to judge an Earth-like planet to be safe?
A colony ship has been sent to deep space to colonize an earth-like planet. Through astronomical spectroscopy, the atmospheric composition was found to be suitable for human life. But of course, ...
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If an otherwise too massive planet rotates fast enough, would the equatorial region become habitable?
Ok, So I'm writing with an eye toward pondering the constraints of terraforming, which are more numerous than most people think, which creates a plethora of fun quirks and constraints for story ...
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Water distribution on tidally locked planet with small northern ocean
Possible repeat of this, but the northern ocean wasn't really addressed.
Picture a mars-like planet, with a rocky, mountainous southern hemisphere, and a flatter, low-elevation northern hemisphere. ...
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If the Earth stopped spinning, what's the ideal point for it to stop to ensure the most people survive?
Say the Earth were to stop spinning, and became tidally locked (or rather, stop spinning 366.25 times a year, and only once a year), through the machinations of a superpowered alien visiting down on ...
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What are some plausible, long-lived geophysical planetary processes which would consistently maintain reddish skies in a human-breathable atmosphere?
Note for clarity: By reddish skies I mean being reddish in the same way Earth's skies are blue. This should apply to the skies in general (not a localized effect), and it's preferable that it's an ...
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Frozen World Atmosphere?
There's a planet in my world's solar system that used to be habitable but was knocked off course. its been frozen for about 4 billion years in the present time.
I'm wondering if the atmosphere would ...
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How to calculate the Draconic month on a fictional world
I am working on a world and want to be able to find out when Eclipses occur, and I found you need to know the Draconic Month, I think I have everything I need to find it, I have the inclination to the ...
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Plausible Martian Underground Colony
I'm looking for scientifically plausible zones for pioneer colonies on Mars. I will have them living underground for radiation shielding, water sourcing, and geothermal for energy, so somewhere with ...
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What should be characteristics of orbit of planet with sustainable climate if north is covered by ocean and southern by desert?
Planet Artemis depicted at my pictures has totally different characteristics of northern and southern hemisphere. Northern hemisphere is covered mainly by ocean, southern by desert (except two seas, ...
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Could a planet with an unusually high heavy metal content sustain life? [closed]
I'm playing around with the concept of a planet containing unusually high heavy metal content, due to being born in a nebula that resulted from a neutron star merger. What conditions would this planet ...
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At what approximate distance and what size should binary planets be for a day to be no more than 30-32 hours long?
For the story I'm trying to find a more or less plausible description of the planet.
Initially I was considering planet size like Mars or mid-size between Earth and Mars. Аnd this planet is in tidal ...
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Could one moon appear to always follow/lead another in the sky?
Is there any way a second moon would appear to hang out near the closer one in the sky? For example always appearing either ahead of or behind throughout the year, or even alternating between those ...
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What is the albedo of a habitable planet?
What is the albedo range for an Earth-like planet? I need to know because it's important for determining the inner and outer edges of the habitable zone. I'm thinking in terms of cloud/water-ratio (I'...
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