Ever seen a Pink Waterworld before? (Well I hadnt)
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Under the current lighting regime, the colour of waterworlds and Earth-like worlds is heavily influenced by the colour of the light from the brightest star. By the looks of it, this planet is orbiting an M class red dwarf? A blue planet seen in red light will look mauve-ish.
Argon, being a colourless inert gas, will not contribute much to the appearance of a waterworld or Earth-like. So if you were to replace that planet with an argon-free planet, with all other conditions the same, it would look much the same colour.
The Stellar Forge only gives high-argon atmospheres to cold, high-ice planets. Your planet, at 264 K and with 48% ice, is a typical high-argon waterworld.
Here's a high-argon Earth-like I recently found; it's orbiting an A-class star and it appears the normal washed-out bluish-white colour typical for any ELW in an A-class system. 265 K, 10.9% argon in atmosphere.
Argon, being a colourless inert gas, will not contribute much to the appearance of a waterworld or Earth-like. So if you were to replace that planet with an argon-free planet, with all other conditions the same, it would look much the same colour.
The Stellar Forge only gives high-argon atmospheres to cold, high-ice planets. Your planet, at 264 K and with 48% ice, is a typical high-argon waterworld.
Here's a high-argon Earth-like I recently found; it's orbiting an A-class star and it appears the normal washed-out bluish-white colour typical for any ELW in an A-class system. 265 K, 10.9% argon in atmosphere.
Aaaah, thanks for the explanation - and looking closer at my golden asp, I think I can see the colour there as well.
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Blu Thua BG-Y b14-2
Red Main Sequence M star
Age: 9,540 my
Solar Masses: 0.26
Radius: 0.4SR
Surface Temp: 2,485K
Luminosity: Va
Absolute Magnitude: 10.54
Axial tilt: 0.00°
Rotation Period: 1.5 days
Belt
Blu Thua BG-Y b14-2 A Belt (Metal Rich)
Mass: 577,970,000.0000 MT
Inner Radius: 1.49ls
Outer Radius: 5.43ls
Inferred Circumstellar zones:
- Habitable Zone, 28-56ls (0.06-0.11 AU),
- Metal Rich planets, 2-2ls (0.00-0.00 AU),
- Water Worlds, 30-115ls (0.06-0.23 AU),
- Earth Like Worlds, 35-54ls (0.07-0.11 AU),
- Ammonia Worlds, 75-204ls (0.15-0.41 AU),
- Icy Planets, 124ls to ∞ (from 0.25 AU)
Current value: 1,204
Scan Type: AutoScan
About worlds with argon atmospheres, there were as an interesting thread about whether such atmospheres would be breathable a few years back. Let's see... it's here.
According to your screenshots, your WW is quite close to an M dwarf star. The colour is influenced by that, and then there's the high atmospheric pressure.
According to your screenshots, your WW is quite close to an M dwarf star. The colour is influenced by that, and then there's the high atmospheric pressure.
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I've had a yellow water world before, because of the colour of its parent body.
