Found an odd planet today. Slightly cold, no atmosphere, active volcanism and a candidate for terraforming which can be landed on. This is a first for me.
Anyone else found a similar world?
Anyone else found a similar world?
Landable Terraforming Candidate?
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Congratulations, those are around, but not common. And post a screenshot of the surface as well! 
Yeah, have found those too but its a rare thing. Tough as far as I can tell they tend to be big ones so they should be able to hold atmosphere but I don't know much about physics n' stuff and how accurate the BGS is here.
I did not drop to the surface but it's only a few jump back. I will jump back and make planetfall and post screen shots.
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Whilst mass is significant factor due to the gravity being able to compress an atmosphere, magnetic fields are highly important to prevent the solar wind stripping it away. Although ne would expect a high metal content world with such content to produce a fairly substantial magnetic field.
My guess is that the temperature and extreme volcanic activity is boiling any potential atmosphere away ?
214K is -59C so not too hot.
That is the gold of the golden spot. Will most likely have unknown lifeforms for you to scoop up and get your name on.
You refer to the surface temperature. Iceland has snow on its surface right next to boiling geysers and volcanoes that radically hwarm the surrounding air. This does not affect the overall mean surface temperature however.
You need to consider the gravity and atmospheric pressure. As the outer layers boil, cooling the planet, the pressure reduces which results in the boiling point to decrease.
or there to be active volcanism in a solid body with such density, The core temperature will still be in the thousands of K, therefore the iron magma will still be equivalently hot. Also potentially relevant is the fact that below a critical pressure there is insufficent binding energy for certain compounds to maintain surface tension as liquid and evaporate even if they will not boil.
Also, without greenhouse gases *particularly without Oxygen compounds) then there is little to prevent the IR heat from the heating the atmosphere and not being reflected back. The net energy is still minimal because of the boiling/evaporation of mesosphere in addition to heating from the volcanism.
Umm.... Atmosphere can't really "boil", can it? I mean everything in it is already gas. If heat and greenhouse gases really would reduce atmosphere, Venus would have been bare rock for a long time by now.
Also I would think that volcanic activity would replace and increase atmospheric gases, not reduce them.
Also I would think that volcanic activity would replace and increase atmospheric gases, not reduce them.
Ooh from the looks of the address not to far from where I am as well, maybe needs a look. However maybe I should leave it until you have sold the data, how far from selling are you? I am not in a hurry myself but don't want to steal your find accidently if I happen to get there sooner than expected.
I have found several of these. I like to land on them since 2.2 since they seem like good places to search for alien ruins. This presumes that ancient civilisations might once have existed on such worlds, and then their atmospheres were lost due to some catastrophe. I have no idea if FDev are using such thinking in their placement of archaeological features. The one currently discovered was certainly placed by a species not native to that world, since it is a small moon. The landable terraform candidates tend to be large (roughly Earth-sized), and so searching them for features is a tall order.
Still, I always make note of them in my EDDiscovery "notes" section.
Still, I always make note of them in my EDDiscovery "notes" section.
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Forget that I was looking at the wrong post lol!