Dirty Ice

When i saw this in system map i thought "A juicy metal rich, even shiny!!!"

Then i was puzzled for a couple of minutes, even thinking i scanned the wrong object, but truth hit me in the face.

Most polluted planet? Thargoid's fault?

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Nice find, these extreme ones seem to be a little on the scarce side. I've found a couple of those, they're a bit hard to wrap your head around as they're very hot, but at the same time the atmospheric pressure is so high that there's still ice present on the surface, albeit dirty ice.

Just imagine having your ship almost melt by landing on ice :eek:, if you didn't get crushed by the atmosphere first that is :D, "thin, sometimes seasonal atmosphere"...indeed.

Here's some specs on my latest one:
Hot R-ice Blanco 1 Sector XW-P b7-0 A 7.jpgBlanco 1 sector XW-P b7-0 A.jpgBlanco 1 sector XW-P b7-0 B.jpg

This one's hot enough to have lava showing in the cracks on it's surface:
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CMDR Andrew Reid
 
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Nice find, these extreme ones seem to be a little on the scarce side. I've found a couple of those, they're a bit hard to wrap your head around as they're very hot, but at the same time the atmospheric pressure is so high that there's still ice present on the surface, albeit dirty ice.

Just imagine having your ship almost melt by landing on ice :eek:, if you didn't get crushed by the atmosphere first that is :D, "thin, sometimes seasonal atmosphere"...indeed.

Here's some specs on my latest one:

This one's hot enough to have lava showing in the cracks on it's surface:


CMDR Andrew Reid

I suspected that atmospehere pressure had somethingto do with hot ice. Still thargoids... Maybe jackie will dig out something for his thread, as you smartly already linked this.
 
One of those worlds (I can't tell for the other without the star data but I'm guessing it's both) is within the ordinary habitable zone of temperatures and above the melting point of water - my suspicion here is that the game has said something like "here's a riceball, what atmosphere does it have at this temperature, oh, must be ordinary water, how much pressure does it have? - oh, water is very dense compared to other things so the pressure is huge, how much temperature increase do we get from that huge pressure - oh, we get an enormous temperature... hot riceball!"
 
Oh, that's interesting - the description in French mentions the expected atmosphere composition whereas the English one doesn't. I wonder if there are any other examples?
 
Oh, that's interesting - the description in French mentions the expected atmosphere composition whereas the English one doesn't. I wonder if there are any other examples?

it actually mentions examples of the volatiles in the crust in the bracket, seems to be the only difference in this description
 
it actually mentions examples of the volatiles in the crust in the bracket, seems to be the only difference in this description

Yes and specifies them - I'm looking at atmospheric compositions at the moment so it's interesting - I can't find the language toggle in the options yet but I'm going to have a look through the other planet descriptions once I find it.
 
Yes and specifies them - I'm looking at atmospheric compositions at the moment so it's interesting - I can't find the language toggle in the options yet but I'm going to have a look through the other planet descriptions once I find it.

yeah would love to know of any other differences, how about the german version?
 
In the French descriptions the one for Icy planets mentions the same things only says they're in the crust. The German ones don't mention them. There's no great differences on the ones I looked at though, oh well. I'll probably end up self-destructing if I try Russian. :)
 
It's theorized that most of our ocean water came from comets that hit earth early on. Comets are essentially dirty balls of ice. This planet could have been bombarded by dirty comets as well but the temps were too low to form oceans, and froze as the planet "cooled" down.

Edit: Wait a second, I just now saw the temps! 2k on an ice world? I see what the fuss is about: extreme physics :)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070517-hot-planet_2.html
 
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