Questions tagged [temperature]
For questions about heat and temperature. For example, such questions could ask about the temperature of astronomical objects, living beings, or space.
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What would winds and storms be like in a no tilt mostly water planet
I'm making a mostly water planet with just a few islands and no axil tilt. Basically I'm wondering if my guesses are right, would my equator have lots of storms and hot rain due to the large amount of ...
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What would the average temperature for a earth like planet with only islands and no continents (water world) be? how would it affect the atmosphere
I was wondering if having a water world would make a planet more hot or cold? Also would it change the atmosphere and make that warmer or cooler?
The planet is smaller then earth (not by to much), has ...
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If a planet had no tilt and a ring at the same tilt of the planet, what would the temperature be at the equator
I want to make a planet with no tilt and also a ring, I know that no tilt would make the equator always warm, but would having a ring make a shadow at the equator that would make it cooler? Or would ...
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How could an egg survive below freezing temperatures for long periods of time?
In my speculative evolution project, the South Pole contains a giant ice sheet with semi-regular snow storms near the coasts. Due to the planet being closer to its star, it’s warmer than earth ...
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How much could a star heat up a planet's mesosphere?
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I have a star 25% the luminosity of the Sun, a blue dwarf, which hosts a dwarf planet 470km across orbiting 0.06au away. Considering its distance, this planet is very hot, ...
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How To Calculate the Average Temperature Of My Planet's Poles And Equator
Note: Due to the comment below, I have added many more data points, which I hope will be helpful to somebody.
I am making my world's map in Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator, and I would like to use the ...
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How can my superhero avoid burning off his shoes?
My superhero, Fusion Man, has the ability to shoot jets of semi-molten metal from his hands and feet. The metal is generated outside his body and given an impulse by the superpowers. I have chosen to ...
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How far above a forest fire or conflagration would you need to be, to not burn alive?
I write fantasy. One of my main characters is kinda like a D&D druid with plantgrowth. He can magically will plants to grow with photosythesis.
He can for example get trees to grow really quickly, ...
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How would human colonists adjust to live on a planet with a hotter climate than Earth's?
Let's imagine that some time in the early 22nd century, another star flew through the Solar System and Earth was ejected from its orbit. Fortunately, before Earth completely froze, humans managed to ...
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Underground City Temperature. Is it possible for an underground city/settlement to be cold?
I am trying to envision an underground city and I'm uncertain of wether or not the general climate would be cold or hot.
In one hand, the lack of sunlight and overall isolation from surface weather ...
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Evaporation phase runaway greenhouse planet, getting temperature and air pressure values
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When Earth reaches the Komabayashi–Ingersoll limit, it will reach the point where a runaway greenhouse can occur. In the evaporation phase, Earth will end up with an ...
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Cool tropics, colder poles
Basically, a simplified version of a question I asked before.
I've seen lots of questions on tropical poles and icy equators, but I'm only interested in a cool equator. I don't need the poles to be ...
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Building the geography/astrography of a "Cool Super Earth"
So I'm currently building the geography of my world. It's supposed to be a Super Earth approximately 2.3 times the size, it's gravity is slightly weaker and it has slightly higher oxygen and ...
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Is it possible to make a planet full of water and at the same time without life?
It's me again, I want to ask if it is possible to make a planet full of water but it has no life, the idea that it is a planet full of water with small islands in which there is no life, here is the ...
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What will be temperature in inland depression deeper than 2 km below sea level (48° southern latitude) and how will temperature gradient work there?
My another question related to already introduced planet Artemis is related to temperature gradient. Whether it will work also in depression deep under sea level and if yes what could be increase of ...
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