Eeloo looking like Europa?

[3mon]

Last night i just saw Europa Report (highly recommend it if you love 'space pr0n' ), and when they arrived at Europa i was like 'OMFG that's Eeloo!!'.

I was shocked, then made a little research and found the images from Galileo and....

It definitely looks a lot like Eeloo, with the brown lines and all!

Now i just need it to be orbiting Jool, and put a huge horizontally oriented Monolith called the Great Wall. Although i gues i should attempt no landing there

[Decent Weasel]

Ahh, someone else who read 2061. Exactly the reason I love Laythe, too.

[3mon]

Ahh, someone else who read 2061. Exactly the reason I love Laythe, too.

Hehe yeah! I'm actually re-reading the Rama series at the moment

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Eeloo is planned to have volcanic activity and be a moon of the second gas giant

[Epthelyn]

Eeloo's appearance was probably inspired by Europa, since it really does look pretty similar (white surface with brown cracks).

[Skyrunner27]

Ahh, someone else who read 2061. Exactly the reason I love Laythe, too.

It was the first book of the series I read. I regret not waiting to read 2001 because 2061 was the most confusing book I ever read, yet I still manged a book report out of it.

[3mon]

Having seen the movies beforehand, I was even more confused when i first read 2001 and THEN 2010... That's some serious continuity mashup right there

[Commissioner Tadpole]

Yeah, people have been commenting quite a bit about Eeloo's uncanny resemblance to Europa.

[ComradeGoat]

Ahh, someone else who read 2061. Exactly the reason I love Laythe, too.

Laythe is the Io analogue though. If there's a Europa in KSP, it's Vall (see sig).

[Brofessional]

Eeloo was originally supposed to be a moon of the second gas giant.

[3mon]

Laythe is the Io analogue though. If there's a Europa in KSP, it's Vall (see sig).

I dont know man, that doesnt look much like Laythe!

.... Know youre meaning positionally, but i just couldnt resist

[The Jedi Master]

I don't know, I think Vall is closer. Eeloo might look like Europa, but I always thought it was the Pluto analog (debate on whether it's actually a planet included).

[ComradeGoat]

I dont know man, that doesnt look much like Laythe!

.... Know youre meaning positionally, but i just couldnt resist

IIRC, one of the devs is on record as saying that Laythe is Io if it were a bit warmer and with an ocean. There are plans for it to have active volcanoes in future.

[Mr.Rocket]

But Laythe has an oxygen atmosphere, or whatever kerbals breate. Io has a mostly sulfur atmosphere. That's a bit of a difference. If Laythe were like Io, it wouldn't be habitable, and jet engines wouldn't work well.

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

But Laythe has an oxygen atmosphere, or whatever kerbals breate. Io has a mostly sulfur atmosphere. That's a bit of a difference. If Laythe were like Io, it wouldn't be habitable, and jet engines wouldn't work well.

I think laythe is the Europa out of '2100 a second oddity' (i think) after Jupiter becomes a star Europa melts. Like laythe and gains an atmosphere

[ComradeGoat]

But Laythe has an oxygen atmosphere, or whatever kerbals breate. Io has a mostly sulfur atmosphere. That's a bit of a difference. If Laythe were like Io, it wouldn't be habitable, and jet engines wouldn't work well.

And Mars doesn't have an enormous moon, like Ike. The KSP bodies aren't exactly like their real world analogues. Europa doesn't have a thick atmosphere like Laythe either (its atmosphere is extremely tenuous, I believe), let alone one in which you could burn jet fuel.

[CaptainArchmage]

Laythe is not like any moon in the solar system. It is probably heated by the same tidal forces as Io, but it has liquid water and a thick atmosphere. It is probably bombarded by radiation, but the moon's atmosphere may moderate that.

One way KSP physics seems to deviate from real life physics is that the solar panels at Jool's distance generate half the power they would at Kerbin's distance from the Sun, according to the Wiki. As Jool is about 5 times the distance from Kerbol as Kerbin, it should only receive 1/25th the solar flux. Curious. Either solar panels in KSP are designed to be extremely inefficient at Kerbin orbit, or the solar illumination in KSP does not decrease by the inverse square law.