Limited as we are to landing on airless worlds, I wondered whether anyone could explain a couple of odd phenomena for me.
First is the odd mist I keep seeing over certain worlds, which confuses me since the bodies in question have no atmosphere -- so what's the mist suspended in?
I'm sure there's a way to make that image smaller but I've no idea what it is.
Also, second question: while I'm over a planet at low speed (i.e. glide is complete), how and why does my ship build up heat pulling turns that, in space, wouldn't affect it at all? It clearly isn't friction, because there's no atmosphere, and gravity is unlikely to be the cause as the turns I'm pulling in space likely generate enough of that to easily offset the tiny gravity of most of the worlds we can land on. Anybody got any ideas?
(Also also: 'Glide'? What're we gliding through, anyway?)
Was it monkeys? Terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
First is the odd mist I keep seeing over certain worlds, which confuses me since the bodies in question have no atmosphere -- so what's the mist suspended in?
I'm sure there's a way to make that image smaller but I've no idea what it is.
Also, second question: while I'm over a planet at low speed (i.e. glide is complete), how and why does my ship build up heat pulling turns that, in space, wouldn't affect it at all? It clearly isn't friction, because there's no atmosphere, and gravity is unlikely to be the cause as the turns I'm pulling in space likely generate enough of that to easily offset the tiny gravity of most of the worlds we can land on. Anybody got any ideas?
(Also also: 'Glide'? What're we gliding through, anyway?)
Was it monkeys? Terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
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