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Old 03-14-2020, 11:45 AM   #24
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Default Re: [Space] Climate & habitability of tide-locked planets

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
I did in fact mean the subsolar point when I said "east pole" and it seems to me the that the place to put the terminator on a tide locked planet would be running through the subsolar point and of course it's opposite.
Huh? The subsolar point experiences permanent noon. The terminator permanent twilight. They are as far away as you can possibly put them on a sphere.
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