fenderzilla

like every planet or moon, laythe isn't all one temperature everywhere. the highest temperatures on laythe's surface can reach 6 celsius, and the lowest are -40.

Oh my god you guys shut up about fruit juice and gay planets - it wasn't even funny to begin with

I doubt that the oceans are pure ammonia because they're blue.

I guess if it is ammonia and water, what would be the ratio of that?

It just said saltwater on the wiki, so I believed it. i guess you guys are right.

Wow, my mind just exploded looking at that

absorbing higher wavelengths is what makes things purple.

Anyway can anyone link me to this chart you're all talking about?

This is also stupid. question EVERYTHING you don't understand.

That's stupid. The elements on the periodic table are what everything in the universe is made of, not just on earth or local planets.

Since laythe is so far away from the sun, it gets really cold - as low as -40 celsius! this should mean that all the water on it is ice, but it's clearly liquid water. since saltwater has a lower melting point that freshwater, i've concluded that Laythe's oceans are very salty. but just how salty? what would be the salt/water ratio in those oceans to mean that it wouldn't freeze?

Eve is a very, very purple planet. How? What's in the oceans, the soil, the atmosphere that makes it so, so purple? what kinds of liquids or gases or elements or compounds could possible make a planet so purple? I've heard it could be ammonia methane, or argon, or iodine, or maybe a combination of very red and very blue compounds. would any of these fully explain though why it is so, so, so purple?

Some people say laythe is the best place for a new colony, but there are some things to consider: laythe's oceans, although liquid water, must be very, very salty to prevent it from freezing, as its temperature is far below zero celsius It's halfway across the solar system, so getting there and back would be net to impossible it's unlikely that there is an abundance of anything that could be used for energy or rocket fuel - even solar power would be sparse as it is so far away from the sun. most importantly - it's too close to Jool. at certain points in its orbit, it would pass close enough to the gravitational field of Jool to be bathed in trillions of ionically charged particles - i think it's something like that on io - essentially irradiating the entire planet's surface. you could work out some sort of way to draw power from this, but your bases would have to have heavy radiation shielding. I think that this would make it impossible to terraform it into an inhabitable world.

The atmosphere in Duna is really thin, which would mean that more light would come through and solar power would be easier. Eve's atmosphere is super dense and opaque-ish, so solar power would actually be a lot harder. also, I'm assuming the polar caps of Duna are carbon dioxide and not ice, since Duna is analogous to mars and Mars's Polar caps are made of CO2.

just add plenty of SAS modules and make sure you press "t" to turn them on before takeoff.