Planets like this one really confuse me. It clearly says "No Atmosphere", yet it can't be landed on.....I really hope planets like this one get the ability to land on them when Odyssey finally hits! Because it actually looks really cool!
OK, so now I am a little confused...
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Yeah, the "ammonia-based chemistry and carbon-ammonia-based life" description, that suggests an ammonia atmosphere. Maybe the atmosphere field hasn't been correctly populated by the stellar forge? Not sure.
Does the planet look like it's got clouds when zoomed in? If not, it might well be one we can land on in Odyssey.
Does the planet look like it's got clouds when zoomed in? If not, it might well be one we can land on in Odyssey.
Didn't see any clouds on zoom, no.
I suspect it will be one we can land on to be honest. Where else are we going to bump into Thargoids
So? Mercury can reach over 400 degrees Celsius, & we can still land on it in the game!
"Ammonia worlds" are called "ammonia worlds" because they have liquid ammonia on their surface, not because they have ammonia as a major component of their atmospheres. Those chocolate-brown areas you can see from orbit? They're ammonia seas and oceans.
Since Odyssey (at first launch, and presumably for some time afterwards) will not have any liquid-surface planets become landable, then this world will not be landable either. You can find similarly non-landable Water worlds, which look like buish-purple cloudless marbles, and lava worlds, which are classified as "high metal content" or "metal-rich" but look like hell-planets with glowing lava lakes.
And yes, it does break the laws of physics to have a liquid water (or ammonia) surface on an airless planet. The laws of physics say that when exposed to a vacuum, liquids must either evaporate or freeze - they cannot remain liquid. I believe the only exception is superfluidic helium, which is incapable of freezing no matter how cold it gets.
Since Odyssey (at first launch, and presumably for some time afterwards) will not have any liquid-surface planets become landable, then this world will not be landable either. You can find similarly non-landable Water worlds, which look like buish-purple cloudless marbles, and lava worlds, which are classified as "high metal content" or "metal-rich" but look like hell-planets with glowing lava lakes.
And yes, it does break the laws of physics to have a liquid water (or ammonia) surface on an airless planet. The laws of physics say that when exposed to a vacuum, liquids must either evaporate or freeze - they cannot remain liquid. I believe the only exception is superfluidic helium, which is incapable of freezing no matter how cold it gets.
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Alright, I guess landing on Mercury just got added to my ingame bucket list.
Was the no surface liquid thing confirmed? I must have missed that. I wasn't expecting to be able to land on Water Worlds or Earth-likes (obviously) but I had hopes that planets with very small amounts of surface liquid would be able to be landed on-especially those with lava as the liquid. Oh well, I hope they at least give us Calderas, Vents & Volcanic Cones on geologically active worlds, as I think we need some added variety beyond Fumaroles & Geysers.
What we are getting at Odyssey launch are "tenuous atmosphere planets". That means no weather (this has been confirmed), and no weather means no flowing liquids. Lakes and seas on a weather-less planet would quickly evaporate away.
Water and other liquids are notoriously difficult to animate realistically in CGI / computer games. I suspect the "water problem" is the main reason we've never been given access to water worlds in previous updates.
Water and other liquids are notoriously difficult to animate realistically in CGI / computer games. I suspect the "water problem" is the main reason we've never been given access to water worlds in previous updates.
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Landing on bugged Planets like that which belong to the fixed group of Atmospheric Bodies?
"Not at Launch" is what you can expect....
(well, probably never)
"Not at Launch" is what you can expect....
(well, probably never)
Terraformable candidates are no problem - you can land on those. There are even worlds in the Bubble that are terraformable that have bases on them, right now. Presumably we would lose access to those bases if/when the terraforming happens and the world becomes an Earth-like.
You cannot land on airless water worlds, as I noted above.