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The Ferrina System by Unownace

The Ferrina System

Unownace

Original deviantART drawing: http://unownace.deviantart.com/art/Ferrina-From-Space-448192124

This is a drawing of what I imagined the Ferren's home planet, Ferrina, would look like from space.

It's slightly smaller/lighter than Earth, about comparable to the size and mass of Venus, both it's day and year are slightly longer, (28 hours and 375 Ferren days/438 Earth days). Like Earth, it's surface is mostly covered with water, with variously sized continents and islands spread out across the remainder.

It has two moons, the closer of which is about two-thirds the size of our moon and pretty much has the same consistency (a great cratered rock in space), and the other one about the size of Saturn's moon Titan, and with a similar appearance/atmosphere. It's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane, with trace amounts of oxygen and water vapor. However, unlike Titan, the surface temperature on this moon is much warmer, almost Earth-like at some points. Being as like our moon though that one side always faces it's parent planet, it's seasons are more dynamic, where on the side facing the sun the surface temperature can reach near the boiling point of water, and on the side facing away from the sun the temperatures plummet below minus 80 degrees Celsius, where dry ice (carbon dioxide ice) and water ice snow flutters down from the thick orange clouds to blanket the night time landscape. Both water and carbon dioxide can exist in all three states of matter on the surface, but the liquid forms of both are found sparingly in small, isolated lakes dotting the surface which boil in the day, and freeze over at night. Ferren astronauts did indeed discover some forms of life on this moon, but nothing more complex than what one might find at the bottoms of the deepest trenches in Earth oceans.

I have still yet to give these two moons names, so any suggestions anyone might have would be helpful. :)

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    Woah...

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      ...Brought to you by WAAAY overthinking the astronomical dynamics of a fictional solar system who's canon story isn't even half-finished yet!~ XD