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What would the weather and climate be like on an Earth-size Mars with an atmospheric pressure of 1 atm?
Assuming the planet still has the same atmospheric composition as the real-world Mars (95% CO2, 3% N2, and 1.3% Ar) and has a global temperature of 284K (10.85°C) based on the answer to my previous ...
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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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How would weather on a Cube-World with uniform surface gravity behave?
In a cube-world with uniform surface gravity with mildly rounded corners, how would weather behave? The Cube-world is roughly earth-sized, with the edges rounded by about a hundred kilometers. Gravity ...
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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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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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Would a planet whose sun is always in one place have weather?
The world I’m writing atm has a planet whose sun is described as being permanently moved above its North Pole. Because of a lack of technology (and interest) in outer space, they wouldn’t have a ...
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Weather and climate of an Earth-like planet orbiting an orange dwarf
I am creating a solar system with fictional planets as a setting for my space novel.
Luckily I have some nice tools for creating quite accurate astronomical data. The planet where my protagonists live ...
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How would weather work on a planet with no rotation and constant sun on all sides?
A while ago I had an idea of a man made planet that consist of a thick, incredibly strong, outer crust, and at the core there is an antigravity/antimatter device that also produces consistent heat and ...
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Would the substellar point on a tidally locked planet with a large continent over that point and oceans around the edges be covered in rainforest?
I have been working on a tidally locked planet for some time now. During this time I have worked under the assumption that the substellar point would be arid because of the constant bombardment of ...
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A 1:1 tidally locked world begins to spin. What sorts of non-solar natural disasters occur?
As stated a tidally locked world that has complete 1:1 begins to spin slowly. It starts slowly, a 2:1 ratio that steadily ramps up over the course of a month to one rotation every month, which would ...
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Clouds on a tidally-locked planet
I have an ocean world in my science-fiction universe which is tidally-locked to its star. The planet is a tidally-detached moon from one the gas giants in the outer system, and orbits a red dwarf star....
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Would a planet with a retrograde spin function as if it were spinning faster or slower?
I am thinking in terms of the Coriolis Effect, atmospheric circulation and specifically Hadley Cell latitudinal width here, but the base question still stands.
For ease of reference, if we take a ...
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Climate types for large volcanic islands on tidally locked planet
My planet is tidally locked to a red dwarf, which itself orbits a yellow sun like our own. It has roughly the same atmospheric conditions as Earth (perhaps a slightly thicker atmosphere, but not ...
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Could this sort of celestial system work?
I am attempting to create a pair of planets, both capable of harboring life. Which happens to also be quite colossal in design. We are talking about 10.13x the size of Earth.
So the system I am ...
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How much would Earth's temperature change if days were 28 hours long?
I know it would be colder at night and hotter during the day, but by how much? And it would impact atmospheric pressure, right?
