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Moon of a gas giant planet with 98% of it's surface covered with shallow ocean.
It is so shallow that you could easily walk across entire moon without any risk of drowning. Deeper places can be found almost only in the middle of old impact craters where waters reach about 10 to 15 meters deep.
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~EXPIDITOR Mar 30, 2013  Student General Artist
AWWESSOOOMM!!!
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Mood: Love *za4em9 Mar 2, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
You know, your works are the main attraction now whenever I visit dA. I'm also in love with the clouds, I can feel your happiness while you create them. And that moon in the background - the one that looks like an eye - if life ever develops on this planet that's what the aborigines would worship, instead of the sun like on our little earth.
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~JustV23 Mar 3, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
That is exactly what i thought while painting that moon :D
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~AexlPls Feb 20, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
This is so awesome. I love the concept and the ejecution.
It looks like a dead world, which is fascinating. The presence of water doesn't necesarily means that there is life, so that water adds a lot of that subtle quality of the good space art, composed of equal parts exotic and familiar.
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~JustV23 Feb 22, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Exactly, far away worlds does not necessarily have to be full of life to be beautiful.
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~ChiefRunningWall Feb 17, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
lol. 98% covered in ocean but only 2% water.

Very nice, I especially like the clouds. Is there any reason they form that way?
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~JustV23 Feb 18, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Well, the atmospheric motions in this moon's atmosphere is different when Earths.
First, it's seasons is a lot longer. Its midsummer in north pole, warm breeze which almost doesn't change direction flows to south and in return colder winds come from south in higher altitudes off the atmosphere. So warm water evaporate creating these thunderclouds which rise high in the atmosphere until they reach colder atmosphere layers. Here this cold breeze i mentioned before flattens the tops of these clouds and blast them in one direction creating long cloud tails radiating from main clouds...
I hope this makes at least a little bit sense :D
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~ChiefRunningWall Mar 13, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Cool! I like that you thought about the mechanics, not just the asthetics, as a story teller, I can appreciate the depth it adds to the setting. Although since warm air rises, it would be the warm air that blasts the thunderclouds into streaks, and a star (or two, or geothermal heating) that evaporates the water.

On more careful thought, it facinates me that most of the water on your world is in the air! Amazing work.

I love all your work. Some day, I'd like to fly to your worlds.
In fact, your "Red Dwarf" picture is my current desktop background. Beautiful!
Keep up the Good work, I await new places with barely kept excitement!
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~JustV23 Mar 14, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Thank you so much!:w00t!:
And about the warm air, if I'm not mistaken warm air cools down when reaches higher layers of the atmosphere. Just like in Earths atmosphere the higher you go in the atmosphere the colder it gets...
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~ChiefRunningWall Apr 28, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
That's right, and when it does, the moisture cools too, and condenses, and that's how clouds form.

I want to be here so badly. I wonder what biology might have developed here. With so little water on the ground, what would arial organisms look like? If life exists in the groundwater, is it amphibious? What if a creature's puddle evaporate's and the creature is too small to find other puddles? Could it be small and light enough to be carried by the heat of the rising water vapor, to swim in the clouds?

I'm pulling together a sci-fi setting, although the focus of technology is on communication, not travel, because it's an extrapolation of present day, it is shaping up to be more cyberpunk, and less western. Even so, the invention of the alcubierre drive allows speedy transportation around interstellar space. I'm sure worlds like this will be found.

Does that make sense? It's very early in development, and I'm tired. Maybe I'll upload what I have tomorrow. After sleep.

Just curious, what programs do you use to make these? They're perfect.
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