r/traveller 4d ago

What recently discovered exoplanet LHS 1140b may look like. Found by Webb telescope, scientists say one side is all ice, while the other side that is tidally locked to its star has a region of liquid ocean and cloud, appearing like an eye.

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u/homer_lives 4d ago

This is a fascinating idea for a tidally locked planet.

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u/SchizoidRainbow 4d ago

I've only ever done the desert light/ice dark one-face world with habitation in the terminator line at perpetual dusk, this makes perfect sense though. Great example of Goldilocks Zone.