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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 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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Ring of storms around a planet
I'm looking to see if it's possible to create a planet which has constant, violent storms occurring in a ring around the planet.
There's been plenty of questions on here about weather on tidally ...
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