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Originally Posted by Violet
More likely that Calypso's axis of rotation is different to that of Earth's. Its just that the maps we use are incorrect. Just like we have true north and magnetic north on Earth maps. So what you see as West on the map is in fact magnetic North and Calypso's axis of rotation is similar to Uranus. This would allow for snow to the west, because this part of Calypso would never see the sun. It would also allow for the lack of night/day cycles we get on Calypso.
AG already touched on this earlier in this thread too. Its something i would really like MA to work on to make the planet more realisitic. |
Well naturally that's what it would imply if the magnetic North was off by 90 degrees and the arctic is to the West: maps oriented to magnetic North. That seems strange for a planet settled from space, but is one way
MA could explain their goofy terrain design.
That wouldn't prevent night and day cycles, though (or at least light and dark, i don't know if you'd call a 1/2 year of light a "day", and that's what the poles would get). The only way to achieve that more or less permanently is to have a satellite whose period of rotation and revolution are the same, with a shared axis for both. That's the case for Earth's moon, and is due to tidal lock.
It would also make for awful weather patterns even more extreme than the four-hour day would indicate due to the extreme polar seasonal fluctuations. In short, it would probably be a really unpleasant place to live.
