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Published: 2021-12-05 10:28:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1041; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 11
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A view from a dusty, about Mars-sized imaginary desert moon to Kepler-277c, or "Behemoth" as I have named the planet. Behemoth is the lower mass companion of two "Mega Earths" in a solar system over 3000 light years away.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-Earβ¦
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-2β¦
A huge rocky planet, only slightly smaller than Neptune, but with 2/3 the mass of Saturn. Hellish conditions prevail on the surface: Temperatures like on Venus, a gravity almost 6 times higher than on Earth and a gigantic air pressure (if an atmosphere exists at all).
I took the artistic liberty to depict Behemoth with a double ring system of two asteroids broken apart. Very likely it will not be stable for a long time and the debris will fall on the planet sooner or later. In the sky there is another imaginary moon of the giant planet.
Terragen 4.5.60; Pixelmator 2.3