Water World, No Atmosphere

[Faster than Jesus [VR]]

I recently found a water world with no atmosphere. How this can occur is beyond me, but more importantly, how will this fit into planetary landings? My understanding is that a lack of (meaningful) atmosphere is the controlling factor for landing on planets in Horizons, but I also strongly suspect that we're not going to to be seeing liquids of any sort in 2.0.

http://www.elitegalaxyonline.com/object-view/?object_id=5165

I think there will likely be additional filters preventing landing on other similar worlds - e.g. no atmosphere but unsupported surface types, for other similar quirks of nature, but I think I'll check this place out, just to see...

Anyway, I've never found one of these before, so apologies if this is actually not that rare, but it just got me thinking, well, confused.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I guess you take your Submarine, I mean Orca, to it and dive in. What ... ok, 192 K ... skate on it.

But for a waterworld, it has remarkably little water/ice in the composition.

 

[Libluini]

I think it's only rock and ice worlds without atmosphere, so no diving in water worlds, sadly. At least at the beginning, other types of worlds will probably come later during the "season" of Horizons. Of course you could argue a water world without atmosphere is still technically an airless rock/ice planet, since the water would evaporate into space if the surface wasn't frozen shut.

 

[cptdavep]

Yeah I found one of these too last night, I'm gonna head back there and try and land when Horizons drops just to find out what happens! Some water worlds have islands or ice caps so there may be somewhere to land...

 

[Katejina]

I've found a handful, and a few with island masses even. It's definitely interesting and I too look forward to trying to land.

 

[Faster than Jesus [VR]]

Not super rare then

I guess you take your Submarine, I mean Orca, to it and dive in. What ... ok, 192 K ... skate on it.

I was hoping for a Moray Starboat, but a submersible Orca would be nice.

But for a waterworld, it has remarkably little water/ice in the composition.

I think it's only rock and ice worlds without atmosphere, so no diving in water worlds, sadly. At least at the beginning, other types of worlds will probably come later during the "season" of Horizons. Of course you could argue a water world without atmosphere is still technically an airless rock/ice planet, since the water would evaporate into space if the surface wasn't frozen shut.

I was thinking the same thing regarding the composition. I'm tempted to say it's more of a glitch than anything.

 

[Libluini]

I'm tempted to say it's more of a glitch than anything.

It still could be a water world with just a thin layer of ice around the planet's surface.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

If it's Landing on Ice, I'm going to bring my Pink Python.

 

[shmulye]

It still could be a water world with just a thin layer of ice around the planet's surface.

If there was a layer of ice, the albedo would be much higher than it currently is. However, I do think that there is a small layer of steam between the water and space, akin to a planetary leidenfrost effect.

 

[Sylar N7]

As far as I know, it's not just planets with no atmospheres that we can land on...it's planets the game deems "safe" for us to land on. For example, there's plenty of rocky worlds with no atmospheres that we can't land on because the gravity is too high.

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

As far as I know, it's not just planets with no atmospheres that we can land on...it's planets the game deems "safe" for us to land on. For example, there's plenty of rocky worlds with no atmospheres that we can't land on because the gravity is too high.

Haven't seen any so far. It is rather the surface features that count (lava and water).

 

[Traveller_GG]

As far as I know, it's not just planets with no atmospheres that we can land on...it's planets the game deems "safe" for us to land on. For example, there's plenty of rocky worlds with no atmospheres that we can't land on because the gravity is too high.

You clearly don't fully know the denizens of this forum... pretty much all of them would take that as a challenge.

 

[mls]

it would be really cool to land on such water worlds and use your ship to dive to a certain depth. Why wouldn't a space ship that's air proof be suitable for diving as well?
Yes a space ship has to withstand pressure from the inside and not from the outside. But the ships can also withstand impacts from missiles, cannons and the like.
Wouldn't mind to have diving capabilities to a certain depth depending on your ship outfit so we can go down on those ELWs and check out the coral reefs along the shore lines.

fly & dive safe,
mls

 

[Traveller_GG]

it would be really cool to land on such water worlds and use your ship to dive to a certain depth. Why wouldn't a space ship that's air proof be suitable for diving as well?
Yes a space ship has to withstand pressure from the inside and not from the outside. But the ships can also withstand impacts from missiles, cannons and the like.
Wouldn't mind to have diving capabilities to a certain depth depending on your ship outfit so we can go down on those ELWs and check out the coral reefs along the shore lines.

fly & dive safe,
mls

The hulls are designed to withstand 1atm of pressure from the inside. For every 10m you go down on Earth you increase the pressure from the outside by 1atm. It's not really an equivalent despite having to protect against point impacts from missiles and the like. The pressure is all over, at every seam, bulkhead and canopy.

 

[mls]

The hulls are designed to withstand 1atm of pressure from the inside. For every 10m you go down on Earth you increase the pressure from the outside by 1atm. It's not really an equivalent despite having to protect against point impacts from missiles and the like. The pressure is all over, at every seam, bulkhead and canopy.

That's what i meant. Depending on outiftting, there could be a new armour type that lets you dive a bit. This is all just wishfull thinking on my end but it could make a lot of difference.
think about you can go down on planets with waterbodies, so you land your ship in the ocean and it floats. Then you open your hangar and head out with an underwater srv that can go deeper than your own ship. So while your dive-enhanced exploration armour fitted ship can go down maybe 100m or so (or maybe just float on the surface) you can take the minisub and head out into the depths.

I want it

 

[Kuroshio]

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... can't help it.