Triangulum Log - Post 5 - The Vista System (Planet 4)
Triangulum Log - Post 5 - The Vista System (Planet 4)
The Vista System’s 4th and outermost planet. This dry cold desert world orbits 1.45 AU from the sun. It is the system’s only super-earth type planet with a mass of 4.37 times that of Earth, and a diameter of 11,656 kilometers (1.82 Earth’s). It is surrounded by a dark-gray ring system, likely a shattered satellite that got too close. The atmosphere is thin and dry, composed primarily of carbon dioxide and smaller quantities of ammonia and methane. The surface is cold with a global average temperature of -94° F
A single large satellite orbits close to the planet. The moon has a radius of 1,091 kilometers and a mass one-quarter that of Earth’s moon.
High Resolution Pics
Image 1 - Planet 4
Image 2 - Dusty world
Image 3 - The wastelands
Image 4 - Endless Sand
Image 5 - A glimpse of home. The Milky Way, and Magellanic Cloud Galaxies.
Image 6 - Faint rings
Image 7 - The Lone companion
Image 8 - Dead world
Image 9 - Conjunction
Image 10 - Pre-eclipse
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Picture of the day - December 9, 2018
One of Insight B-VI’s smaller outer moons crossing the face of a large cyclone.
Battered Desert
Picture of the day - November 5, 2018
A cratered desert world with a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere. Both heavily cratered combined with extensive surface modification from volcanism and other forms of geological activity. Evidence of a tectonic fault-line is present in the above image.
Gas Giant Eclipse
Picture of the Day - October 13, 2018
The sky of a large moon orbiting a gas giant right before an eclipse.
Triangulum Log - Vernier System.
We’ve gone deeper into the Triangulum System and come across this binary system. The system consists of a hot F-Type Star 3.1 times brighter than our sun, orbited by a much less luminous K-Type Star only a fifth the brightness of our sun. The system has 6 planet’s including the most earth-like planet I’ve come across yet.
The Inner-most planet is a warm Ice-Giant with 53 earth masses and atmosphere temperatures of 378 K or 221 °F, orbiting the common center of mass of the two suns at a distance of 0.78 AU. The atmosphere of the planet is extremely turbulent under the intense sun-light. Wind speeds reach up to 1,100 kilometers per hour and cyclonic systems churn across the equator.
The second planet is Earth-like planet roughly 0.20 Earth masses, and radius 0.60 times that of Earth. Liquid water oceans cover a small portion of the surface. The planet is more desert-like than Earth, with water covering less than 15% of the surface. The atmosphere has only 0.15 atmosphere’s of pressure and has an unusual composition. Carbon dioxide comprises 84.4% of the atmosphere mixed with 13.1% Acetylene and 1.3% sulfur dioxide. The acetylene is stable in the atmosphere due to there being no oxygen; however, ultraviolet light natural breaks the compound down, forming Tholins in the atmosphere, giving the atmosphere a thick haze. Surface temperatures average 320 K or 116 °F. The planet has no polar ice-caps and orbits 1.25 AU from the stars. Several asteroid-sized moons orbit the planet along with larger rounded satellite that has a radios of 374 km.
High Resolution Pictures.
Picture 1 - Two Suns and a Giant
Picture 2 - Inner-Most Ice Giant
Picture 3 - White and Orange Suns over stormy skies
Picture 4 - Jewel of the System - Earth-like World
Picture 5 - Desert-world with some seas
Picture 6 - Hazy Atmosphere
Picture 7 - Planet’s Surface
Picture 8 - Different Layers of the atmosphere.
Picture 9 - Planet’s small moon.
Picture 10 - Sun’s setting on the lunar surface.
Lunar Rings
Pictures of the Day - October 21, 2018
Normally, giant planets are the ones with rings, but in some situations a moon of a gas giant can have its own rings. Here we come across such a satellite.
Lonely Moon
Picture of the Day - October 19, 2018
Small moon passing in front of a large Super-Earth type planet.
Image of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2007
Credit: NASA processed by Kevin M. Gill
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