How I have come to love Rocky and Icy (and Rocky-Icy) planets

Jon474

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Jon474
They have such a wide-variety of atmosphere types.

Methane, Argon, Nitrogen, None at all...the list seems to go on.

I am Rocky, Icy and Rocky-Icy planet spotting on my exploration missions these days. No longer does my heart sink when I see a long line of "boring" planets.

No, I am now fresh to the quest to discover more variants of these wonderful bodies.

Flying happy
Jon
(T6-E & DBX pilot)
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
You just made yourself one of the more telling explorers in my book.

If you have some info to post on them to trigger the curiousity of other explorers about these neglected bodies, by all means :) Screenies, logs, it's all good.
 

tiger61378

tiger61378
Ah, yes, another explorer who isn't out to make a buck, but is exploring for the sake of exploration. I'm detailed scanning EVERYTHING I find...not because its so valuable, but because I just want to see it all ;)
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
I've been scanning planetary and asteroid rings. Mostly to show them some love but also because I've been sampling their metal content. :)
 

Jon474

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Jon474
The other feature of these rocky and/or ice bodies to put under the microscope is their volcanism...and does it correlate to their atmosphere type and composition?

I could do with Captain's Log being modified to add these features.

Flying happy...travelling to new atmosphere types...and breathing in deeply
Jon
(T6-E & DBX pilot)
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
Jon474 said:
The other feature of these rocky and/or ice bodies to put under the microscope is their volcanism...and does it correlate to their atmosphere type and composition?
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In a manner of speaking, yes, insofar as both are functions of absolute temperature so far as I can tell. We've been looking at them here if you'd like to pitch in - any data is welcome, especially if you find Rocky-Ice worlds which are within the normal "terraformable" zone.
 

Andrew Gaspurr

Andrew Gaspurr
I always try to imagine how life must be on those bleak rocks. The weirder the planetary and atmospheric composition the more imagination I pour into this.

Some screenies from Rockys:

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Sapient6

S
Some of them are quite worth getting close just to have a look at them.

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This one is absolutely an icy-rocky planet. I flew in expecting it to be by its hud icon, but had to visit it because it looked so nice on the system map.
 
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Andrew Gaspurr

Andrew Gaspurr
I came across a Rocky orbiting an HMC yesterday. Thought it was worth taking a screeny:

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Later, I found a nicely scarred ice planet as well. Enjoy!

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Jon474

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Jon474
Surly_Badger said:
I've been scanning planetary and asteroid rings. Mostly to show them some love but also because I've been sampling their metal content. :)
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Stupid question: how do you scan a ring? Genuinely don't know. I've seen information about the rings in the system map after a scan but can you do a scan on a specific ring or asteroid? What haven't I been doing?
Thanks in advance
Jon
 
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Shaele

Shaele
I usually don't scan icy/rocky planets , but once scanned one that was 500x the mass of earth (Jupiter is 300x) and 1500 times the atmospheric pressure with a 100% nitrogen (or maybe methane - one of the 2) atmosphere
 
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Jon474

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Jon474
Can you remember where you came across this? I would love to fly out to look at that.

Flying happy
Jon
 

Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
Jon474 said:
Stupid question: how do you scan a ring? Genuinely don't know. I've seen information about the rings in the system map after a scan but can you do a scan on a specific ring or asteroid? What haven't I been doing?
Thanks in advance
Jon
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You don't really scan rings...you just scan the planet that has the ring(s) and that will give you the info...just the way you have been doing it.

You can, however, scan the asteroid belts by pointing your nose to them just like any other body. Thing is that 99% of explorers don't really do that due to several reasons: they are worthless when selling the data, even if you could "mine" they are normally just a couple of asteroids, they are also scattered and make you lose time exploring.

Back to rings, provided they are all pristine -oppose to major reserves- Metallic rings are most value, then high metal content, then rocky. Icy are worthless.
 

Jon474

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Jon474
@ Kancro

Ah, I see. Got it. Thank you for the explanation. I might do a bit of asteroid scanning to see what it looks like but I suspect that this could easily blow my OCD fuse!

Thanks again.
Kind regards
Jon
(T6-E and DBX pilot)
 
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