This article >https://www.techspot.com/news/97568-new-potentially-habitable-planet-discovered-scientists-but-half.html
speaks of the discovery of an exoplanet that recieves only 65% of the radiation
from its sun that our Earth recieves - but because one side of it always faces >its sun, it could be habitable.
Of course, at 31 light-years away, this hardly matters, even if it's close in >relative terms.
The weather on a planet tidally locked to its sun might be quite
interesting.
On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 10:04:33 PM UTC-7, Chris L Peterson wrote:
The weather on a planet tidally locked to its sun might be quite
interesting.
I can imagine that such a planet would be an inspiratiion to science-fiction >writers. But thinking about it: we have weather because due to day and night, >and over the longer term, the seasons, places on the Earth alternate between >hot and cold.
If every place on a planet was at a constant temperature, even if different >places were at different temperatures, an equilibrium would be reached.
Since the Moon has libratiions, and the Earth has the Equation of Time, of >course, this situation doesn't apply to a tidally-locked planet, there will be >some shuffling around of insolation.
But it could be that despite the huge temperature difference, the weather >would actually be quite dull on such a world, as it would always be the
same thing.
Of course, "interesting" has more than one meaning. That huge temperature >difference means a huge convection cycle. So the weather would be the same >every day... but can, say, 200 mph winds (or more!) ever really be considered >boring?
John Savard
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