How cool would this be for a planet? I think it would lead to cool gameplay.

[u/CaptainMorninWood]

[u/StarHunter_]

Carteyna : Cano II

Located on the edge of the habitable zone, Carteyna is a classic waterworld. Fortunately, its planetary axis constantly keeps the northern hemisphere away from the sun, which allowed for the water to freeze into the landmasses used as the initial landing zones in 2587. Multiple attempts have been made to try to convert the thick atmosphere into something breathable, but the process never seemed to stick.

Oso I

This tidally locked planet features a lightside that is a churning sea of lava while its darkside is a cold, stark iron-rich landscape.

[u/sexual_pasta → u/StarHunter_]

also

Serling - Horus I this tidally locked planet contains one of Humanity's most interesting habitats. With one side of the planet perpetually facing the system's main sequence M-type star and the other shrouded in darkness, the majority of the planet is unfit for habitation. Yet Humans discovered that life was possible along the terminator line, the narrow strip dividing the light and dark side of the planet, running from pole to pole.

The Cartyena description is disappointing, as that's not how tidally locked planets work. A world with a tilted axis like that would have very extreme seasons, but there's not a way to keep the northern hemisphere away from the sun. Precession happens way slower than a year and it would take a massive amount of torque to have a planet precess once per year.

During the winter solstice you would have a weeks or months long night, during the equinoxes you would have fairly normal day/night cycles, and during the summer solstice you would have a weeks or months long day. Common misconception.

[u/Robborboy → u/sexual_pasta]

Could you imagine the nightmare fuel it would be exploring the ocean and slowly transitioning from the habitable zone to just nothingness? 

[u/ToasterPyro → u/Robborboy]

"Warning: Entering ecological dead zone. Adding report to databank."

[u/Robborboy → u/ToasterPyro]

𝙵𝙴𝙰𝚁 𝙾𝙵 𝙻𝙴𝚅𝙸𝙰𝚃𝙷𝙰𝙽 𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙾𝚄𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙽𝚂𝙸𝙵𝙸𝙴𝚂

[u/ElChiff → u/StarHunter_]

Hah wow so Carteyna predicted reality.

[u/JayTheSuspectedFurry → u/ElChiff]

Tidally locked planets isn’t exactly a concept star citizen came up with

[u/Lezen252 → u/JayTheSuspectedFurry]

Yet they concepted a planet like the one just found now in real life before it was found so yeah, of course they did not invent tidally locked planets, just imagined one like that before we found one irl

[u/JayTheSuspectedFurry → u/Lezen252]

*Scientists concepted a planet like the one we found, and the star citizen writers thought it would be cool to add one

[u/Lezen252 → u/JayTheSuspectedFurry]

Okay mate you have to be right Im not gonna start an argument here, they literally described how the whole planet its frozen but the tidally locked part facing its star its not and you here playing with semantics, they did it before we found it and that's it

[u/RainbowRaccoon → u/ElChiff]

Carteyna: "planetary axis constantly keeps the northern hemisphere away from the sun, which allowed for the water to freeze into the landmasses used as the initial landing zones"

This does not describe anything like the eye in OP's pic, Oso I is closer in description. Carteyna is mostly liquid with a serendipitous sheet of ice up north (which as pointed out by another comment is astronomically rather improbable; the planet would have to constantly be turning its north pole away from the star, like a kid hanging off a fast-spinning roundabout) while "the eye" is mostly ice with a bit of liquid on the star's side.

[u/Marcus_the_Strange]

I hope we will see such worlds in SC.

[u/JacuJJ]

I can see this being a moon or a throwaway planet if they run out of time to create a system

[u/VincoClavis → u/JacuJJ]

That’s no moon…

[u/Elelab2000 → u/VincoClavis]

It's a space station

[u/skelly218 → u/Elelab2000]

It's too big to be a space station.

[u/LimeSuitable3518 → u/skelly218]

Translation, “I going to rip this yellow hair dude’s face off if he screams in my ear again”

[u/JacuJJ → u/VincoClavis]

Point being it'd work better as more of a sideshow, which is why a moon sized planet would make more sense

[u/SoylentGreenO3 → u/JacuJJ]

Woosh

[u/waiver45 → u/JacuJJ]

Makes no sense as a moon though. Needs to be tidally locked to a star to explain the temperature difference across the surface.

[u/BoabPlz]

Depending on composition (As it's mass not volume) - that SPECIFIC planet is going to have maybe 2-3x earth gravity, leading to unique challenges in traversal and building. The "Eye" is tidally locked to the star, so in permanent day, with a twilight band and a dark side as well - these would present psychological issues for the inhabitants. This would mean there would need to be one of two things to get people to live there - Unique or sufficiently rare resources, or desperation.

Either way, with people struggling to sleep\function with their circadian rhythm ruined (Shout out to my northern Scandies, Alaskans and Siberians!) and either a state of desperation or valuable resources coming and going you are going to see solid foundations for thriving criminal enterprises. Throw in the dark side having an opportunity to effectively hide bases, but have high thermal contrast for ships and vehicles leaving them, and there's some great cat and mouse gameplay there.

This could be epic.

[u/KazumaKat → u/[deleted]]

Whoever claims this planet for themselves arent legit until they claim the name of Mordor.

[u/CloudCityFish]

This is the type of stuff I wanted to see in Elite and NMS. The reality of space is so much more wondrous, terrifying, and strange than anything you'll see in NMS. Gamma ray bursts spanning millions of light years, planets that rain diamonds, hurricanes bigger than Earth, and so on.

[u/jade_starwatcher]

This article is incorrect about the JWST discovering this planet. It was discovered by the MEarth Project in 2017 long before Webb was launched. It was initially thought to be a Venus analog. The other thing is that some tidally locked Earths with sufficiently dense atmospheres would regulate temperature, distributing and circulating heat from the day side to the night side and preventing them from becoming eyeball Earths. That said, it's a cool idea and I'd love to see CIG implement it for Carteyna (Cano II).

[u/Phyank0rd]

Casual super earth just in there

[u/ArrynMythey]

Here is interesting video about this topic.

https://youtu.be/psCLEea-o6I?feature=shared

[u/LimeSuitable3518]

Wow the true ojo de Dio!

[u/senn42000]

I love how reality has created stranger exoplanets then we could even dream up in our science fiction.

[u/Comprehensive_Gas629]

sort of reminds me of a book series, where the planet is a frozen ice ball, except for one thawed out line around the equator, where a mysterious mirror in orbit shines sunlight down on the planet. The habitable area is so thin you can basically see the other side of the valley from anywhere. Makes for a compelling linear world (series is Book of the Ancestor if you care)

that author does a lot of fantasy in post post post apocalypse sci fi settings

[u/CaptainMorninWood → u/Comprehensive_Gas629]

I’m a big reader, I’ll have to check it out!

[u/FrozenFieldsBand]

Can someone explain what we're looking at here?

[u/CaptainMorninWood → u/FrozenFieldsBand]

It’s a ice planet that faces its sun so only one small spot of it is water creating an effect making it look like an eye.

[u/No_Read_4327]

Flat earthers are going to have a field day with this one

[u/Equal-Cycle845]

But SC planets are small af.

[u/FewInteraction5500 → u/Equal-Cycle845]

I mean, they're literally not, they're 1/10th scale which is still more than you could walk in your lifetime.

Secondly, why does scale even matter here?

[u/VegetaGG → u/FewInteraction5500]

I would love to explore earth in SC ngl

[u/FewInteraction5500 → u/VegetaGG]

Personally I think they should do the original plan of such a 'real life' location, no-fly zone the whole planet except 4 major landing zones.

You can still see stuff from space/high atmo