12-22-2018, 10:55 AM | #11 |
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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Re: 90 degree axial tilt--habitable?
Note that the equator will receive different amounts of sun at different times of year. When its got a normal day-night cycle, it will receive light comparable to earth's equator. But during the solstice, the light received will come in at a pretty oblique angle, so there won't be nearly as much of it. It will be closer to an arctic summer than anything else, though it will probably function like winter.
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12-22-2018, 06:10 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: 90 degree axial tilt--habitable?
I suspect that putting the planet around a smaller star would help keep it less extreme, since the seasons will be shorter, but it will still be pretty drastic, which is the idea. I expect that the human colonies will be near the equator, and critical structures will be either VERY strong, or underground.
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