just discovered a 1540 Kelvin Icy Body, is this correct??
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yes it is landable!, im checking it out now but its so big its taking ages to get there. Update: gravity too high to disembark damnIt's landable? (Have to ask because that stupid EDO map doesn't give any info about the atmosphere!)
If so, the Stellar Forge got drunk again.
Take it (landing) easy, it's over 3G, so quite heavy G.
Yes because it has that blue half-circle around it indicating that you can land on it.
It does, but it's omitted when there is no atmosphere to give info about. Additionally, atmospheric planets (landable or not) are indicated by a blue sphere surrounding them (e.g. look at the planet to the right of the one in question in OP's screenshot)
Ok, thanks.
EDH way of doing it is more informative though, it says: no atmosphere.
Take it (landing) easy, it's over 3G, so quite heavi
the only thing saving my heart now is the special lore gravity chairTake it (landing) easy, it's over 3G, so quite heavy G.
It's landable? (Have to ask because that stupid EDO map doesn't give any info about the atmosphere!)
If so, the Stellar Forge got drunk again.
Yes, at a glance, it has the blue half circle so it's landable, it has no atmospheric halo so it's airless so of course there's no atmpospheric info, that stupid EDO map tells you everything you need to know just by glancing at it!
And yes it sounds like a bug, only planets with really dense atmosphere's would be frozen in these conditions.
See some discussion on the theory and practicality of "hot ice" planets in this recent thread.
To sum up: Orvidius and varonica are correct. It is physically possible to have "ice" at 1540 K, provided you've got a high enough atmospheric pressure squeezing it down and keeping it solid. For water ice (or any other substance logically definable as "ice"), we're talking millions of atmospheres of pressure. But what you can't have is "ice" at 1540 K in a vacuum - at those temperatures, it'll flash-evaporate and you'll be left with a giant comet.
To sum up: Orvidius and varonica are correct. It is physically possible to have "ice" at 1540 K, provided you've got a high enough atmospheric pressure squeezing it down and keeping it solid. For water ice (or any other substance logically definable as "ice"), we're talking millions of atmospheres of pressure. But what you can't have is "ice" at 1540 K in a vacuum - at those temperatures, it'll flash-evaporate and you'll be left with a giant comet.
I now want to seee a giant comet in action