Insight System - Third Planet Orbiting Insight B (Insight B-III)
Pictures of the day - December 2, 2018
Insight System - Third Planet orbiting Insight B (Insight B-III)
Insight B-III is the giant of the Insight System, being the most massive planet of both of the system’s stars. It is a massive gas giant the nears the boundary with a brown dwarf at 11.75 Jupiter masses. The planet has an active atmosphere from both solar heating and internally released heat and has an average atmospheric temperature of 147 F.
The planet orbits the sun at an average distance of 0.21 AU, and completes an orbit once every 41.33 days. The planet is not quite tidally locked with a rotational rate of 41.67 days vs its orbital period of 41.33 days. As a result, a solar day on the planet lasts 14.00 Earth years.
No major satellites orbit the planet; however, 30 asteroid-like irregular satellites orbit the planet.
Note the star visible in the last picture is the Insight System’s primary star Insight A. Viewed from the gas giant, the star shines with an average magnitude of -17.29, bright enough that it illuminates the dark side of objects to approximately the same level of lighting as the average living room.
High Resolution Pictures
Insight B-III
Polar View
Crescent View
Equatorial Cloud Bands
Nearby asteroid moon
Distant asteroid moon
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TOUCHDOWN OF INSIGHT ON MARS! Man, this just never gets old. I am SO over the Moon (or Mars) each and every time our incredible civilization accomplishes such amazing technological feats. Congratulations to all who made this happen. Pop the corks!
One of the landing team members just mentioned that InSight will soon deploy instruments with which to search for water on Mars. Where there is water, there is life. It is highly unlikely that the water is sterile. I also would like to remind ourselves that life exists here in Earth where in the most inhospitable life conditions, extreme heat, extreme darkness, life exist. (At the exact time of reentry and touchdown, the street in front of my place was being blacktopped with 2 gigantic steel rollers causing the ground, foundation walls, windows to shake and vibrate. @krixomatic says, “Feels like we’re inside the lander!” I exploded with laughter. Can’t make this up.) What do you think guys? Tag someone 👥 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽👩🚀 FOLLOW @barışözcan 👩🚀 FOLLOW @nasa 👩🚀 FOLLOW @umutayildiz . #CFP +#gaintrick #explorepage #viral #trending #ayoandteo#shmateo #piggybackchallenge #newfreezerchallenge#blocboyjb #shootchallenge #reverse #reversechallenge#toespin #dancers #waterchallenge #dancetrends#2017dancetrends #worldstar #invisibleboxchallenge#tagafriend #views #funnyvideo #freex #clicknow#neverjudgeabookbyitscover #dontjudgechallenge
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Picture of the Day - January 26, 2019
Barren and battered worlds.
The Core of the Milky-way relative to the apparent size of the moon from Earth
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Inner Clouds
Picture of the day - November 12, 2018
Inner planets orbiting close to the sun are losing their atmosphere’s at a rapid rate generating a large gas cloud in this system. The gas is thick enough to glow from the illumination of the sun, shrouding the star from the view of the outer planets.
It is likely that other solar systems with hot gas and ice giants have an appearance similar when viewed from orbiting distant planets. The small cloud visible to the left is the Small Magellanic Cloud Galaxy.
These will be the last pics from the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy. I will have my next galaxy picked out soon.
High Resolution Pictures
Pale green titan-like world
Three suns
Cratered world with a thin atmosphere
White sun
Binary sunset
Two airless worlds
Oculus System - Post 2 (Inner-most Planet)
The inner-most planet is a Chthonian Planet, or the core remnant of a large Ice of Gas Giant that lost its atmosphere to the solar winds. The planet is a Super-Earth mass world of 8.4 Earth Masses and a radius of 1.56 Earth’s or 9,954 kilometers in radius. The planet is extremely dense, being made almost entirely out of compressed metals with a thin silicate crust. It has an average density of 12.1 g/cm³. The surface experiences a gravitational force of 3.44 g.
This world has a water-vapor atmosphere that generates a powerful greenhouse effect on the surface. Surface temperatures reach 1,623 °F, and sodium and potassium clouds circle the planet. Pressure on the surface is so extreme, the atmosphere exists as a super-critical fluid, with an atmospheric pressure 6,511 times that of Earth. The atmosphere reflects enough sunlight that the day-side has a bright-white color that drowns out the glowing clouds.
High Resolution Pictures
Picture 1 - Inner-Hell
Picture 2 - Tiny Moon
Picture 3 - Glowing Storms
Picture 4 - Steamy Atmosphere
Saturn’s equinox in 2009 taken by Cassini spacecraft
Credit: NASA/JPL
O’Sirus System - Post 2 (Weird Life)
The System’s 6th planet, and first world I’ve come across in my journey that has life on the surface. This is one odd life-supporting world. It is a small world, roughly the size of Mars, but only half of Mars’ mass, with a low average density. The atmosphere is 99.8% carbon dioxide and 0.2% oxygen, with a thickness only 4% that of Earth’s atmosphere. The surface has an average temperature of 181 K or -133 °F. And it has one large moon in orbit.
Unfortunately Space Engine only shows life as coloring on the planet’s surface; therefore, I have no idea what form or appearance it has. Based off of the temperatures and atmospheric composition, this the life likely has has a low metabolic rate that uses a liquid other than just water to metabolize, possibly an Eutectic Water-Ammonia solution. Carbon-based if feasible, but involves significantly different chemistry than we are familiar with. The purple coloring likely an adaptation to utilize the low sunlight levels and probably uses primarily red or near infrared light for photosynthesis.
High Resolution Pics
Picture 1 - Planet and Moon
Picture 2 -
Picture 3 - The Equator
Picture 4 - Northern Ice Cap
Picture 5 - Planet, Moon, Sun, Inner Planets and Andromeda
Picture 6 - The Surface
Picture 7 - Moon and Nebula Rising
Dark Cloud
Picture of the Day - October 31, 2018
A dark Nebula hangs over the sky of an airless moon.
Note: There will be one last set of pics posted for the Triangulum Galaxy this evening before I visit another galaxy to begin exploring.
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