Ice Desert By JustV23

Picture of the day - December 12, 2018

Moon rise over Insight B-V. The second sun is also visible in this pic.

Triangulum Log - Post 6 - Vista System (A Parting Recap)

Last shots of the system’s 5 largest worlds before continuing my adventures in Triangulum. I am now off to find another star system to explore.

High Resolution Pics

Image 1 - Inner Dwarf Planet

Image 2 - Planet 1 - Hot Ice Giant

Image 3 - Planet 2 - Rocky World

Image 4 - Planet 3 - Large Gas Giant

Image 5 - Planet 4 - Super Earth with satellite.

Not space related, but wanted to see what my space engine followers thought of this question. Hoping to get some good memes out of it.

Shark Question

Are male sharks now going to be banned if their claspers are visible? Also are female sharks with scars on their face going to be banned since that can be considered sexual abuse by a male shark?

Picture of the day - February 6, 2019 - (Very late post)

Ringed ocean world with greenish-gray colored oceans. The Carina Nebula fills the sky in the background.

Pictures of the day - November 13, 2018

Tempus System - First Round of Pictures

I’ve decided to showcase another system, and here are the pics of a system in the Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy I am calling the Tempus System

Space Engine System ID: RS-8475-7-6-4-195

High Resolution Pictures

Mars-Like World

Crescent

Scorched Surface

Cold battered desert moon

Orbital Closeup

Dim suns

Distant giant

Another ring shot

RIP Stan Lee

Your legacy lives on in all of us.

If the earth had rings, would we see them when it was night? It's a stupid question but still

Yes, just as the moon reflects the light of the Sun, the rings also reflect. But perhaps they would not be like the rings of Saturn, they would be smaller because the Earth has the gravity smaller than the one of Saturn to hold them and also they would not be made of ice, because they would be closer to the Sun. There is a specific point in the System Solar known as “ice line” or “snow line”. This is the point in the Solar System, where ice deposits could have survived for long periods of time. Any closer and the radiation from the Sun sublimates the ice away. Instead, the rings could be made of rock and dust.

Water ice clouds on Mars (desktop/laptop) Click the image to download the correct size for your desktop or laptop in high resolution

2018 September 16

A Solar Filament Erupts Image Credit: NASA’s GSFC, SDO AIA Team

Explanation: What’s happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual – it just threw a filament. Toward the middle of 2012, a long standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space producing an energetic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The filament had been held up for days by the Sun’s ever changing magnetic field and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Watched closely by the Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory, the resulting explosion shot electrons and ions into the Solar System, some of which arrived at Earth three days later and impacted Earth’s magnetosphere, causing visible aurorae. Loops of plasma surrounding an active region can be seen above the erupting filament in the featured ultraviolet image. Although the Sun is now in a relatively inactive state of its 11-year cycle, unexpected holes have opened in the Sun’s corona allowing an excess of charged particles to stream into space. As before, these charged particles are creating auroras.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180916.html

Pictures of the Day - December 25, 2018 (Merry Christmas)

Insight A System - Either Planet (Insight A-VIII)

Insight A-VIII is the eighth planet orbiting Insight A. It is an ice-giant with a mass 15.46 times that of Earth, and a diameter of 3.19 Earths. The planet has unusually pronounced cloud bands, and a wide-spaced ring system. It orbits it’s sun at an average distance of 4.01 AU, completing 1 orbit every 7.41 Years.

This planet has an active atmosphere with an average temperature of -213 F, and a day on the planet last 11 hours and 6 minus. 5 moons orbit the planet that are large enough to be rounded by their own gravity, including 4 larger than 2,000 kilometers across.

High Resolution Pictures

Insight A-VIII

Transiting Moon

Closeup

Asteroid Moon

View from outer-most large moon