I came across this rather incredible planet on my most recent expedition:
Basic stats:
I was complaining in another thread that the renderer didn't do it justice, but looking more closely, I don't think I really understood what I was looking at. I'm still not certain:
At first glance, the planet appears to be yellow in coloration, with blotches of a darker yellow, and 50%+ cloud cover in the form of slate grey clouds with occasional high white cirrus above.
Looking closer at the "land", it became apparent that either this land was unusually low resolution, or that it was in fact a second cloud layer below.
It became more apparent that the yellow is a second cloud layer when I looked closely at one of the volcanoes:
Note that although the flanks of the mountain are visible at the edge of the plume, they are partially obscured by the second layer.
In fact, this image is probably the clearest one I have of the surface, with mountains partially visible through a gap in the grey cloud layer:
In Summary:
With a surface pressure of over 341 million pounds per square inch, and a temperature found in the lower Chromosphere of Sol, HIP 585 2 is a difficult planet to comprehend. It's atmosphere consists of an upper cirrus layer of water vapor, followed by a mid layer of silicate (blown glass vapor). A lower layer of atmosphere is also mostly silicate, but flavored with a small amount of iron vapor. The nature of the surface is unknown, but is unlikely to contain a hydrosphere of any sort, even iron, due to the immense pressures. In fact, any carbonaceous rocks found in the upper layers of the surface could spontaneously form diamonds without the deep crustal pressures and temperatures needed on ELWs.
Basically, don't ever try to land here. Even for the diamonds as big as mountains.
Basic stats:
- Surface Temp: 7,761 K
- Surface Pressure: 22,757,458 atmos
- Atmosphere: 98.2 Silicates; 1.5% Iron; 0.3% Water
- Note that the planet is tidally locked with the star, despite being in a binary orbit with planet 3
I was complaining in another thread that the renderer didn't do it justice, but looking more closely, I don't think I really understood what I was looking at. I'm still not certain:
At first glance, the planet appears to be yellow in coloration, with blotches of a darker yellow, and 50%+ cloud cover in the form of slate grey clouds with occasional high white cirrus above.
Looking closer at the "land", it became apparent that either this land was unusually low resolution, or that it was in fact a second cloud layer below.
It became more apparent that the yellow is a second cloud layer when I looked closely at one of the volcanoes:
Note that although the flanks of the mountain are visible at the edge of the plume, they are partially obscured by the second layer.
In fact, this image is probably the clearest one I have of the surface, with mountains partially visible through a gap in the grey cloud layer:
In Summary:
With a surface pressure of over 341 million pounds per square inch, and a temperature found in the lower Chromosphere of Sol, HIP 585 2 is a difficult planet to comprehend. It's atmosphere consists of an upper cirrus layer of water vapor, followed by a mid layer of silicate (blown glass vapor). A lower layer of atmosphere is also mostly silicate, but flavored with a small amount of iron vapor. The nature of the surface is unknown, but is unlikely to contain a hydrosphere of any sort, even iron, due to the immense pressures. In fact, any carbonaceous rocks found in the upper layers of the surface could spontaneously form diamonds without the deep crustal pressures and temperatures needed on ELWs.
Basically, don't ever try to land here. Even for the diamonds as big as mountains.
