Duality

Hey man, I found some pictures on Space Engine you might like. I went on a journey to find some water worlds. I didn't expect I'd find a whole lot. I was surprised.

This is a comet in another star system I happened to stumble across.

In a system near that comet I found this beauty, ring system and all. 

This planet has storms. It has storms and it has water! Here's where things get weird though. The water appears to be 101 C. 

This didn't stop the planet from generating water on the surface! But I got hot just thinking about it. Still, here we see clouds, water, and sand from a desert. Also the rings from earlier!

The water is meeting the desert here. The sun is making it look like silver. I'm almost getting a mercury feel from it!

The water here forms a river. Unfortunately I could not see the rings from this angle.

I decided to see how deep the water in that river was. I didn't think it would be all that deep Duality. Have to be honest here.

Turns out it was 864 meters in depth! Not sure if it looks like it from here, or if we'd even be seeing light. But Space Engine's still considered early access I think. So we'll have to excuse that sort of thing for now!

All in all, a gorgeous planet,  If a bit barren, of course.  I'm afraid most of that water is going away. But we got to see it now, and that's pretty cool!

Not that far away I found another planet with water on it, or so the filters promised.

It looks like a cookie not safe for human consumption to me. I spy a few islands here and there. This planet is young. The temperatures are quite hot at 76 C, but not hot enough for the oceans to boil away. If I didn't know any better, I'd say we were looking at the beginning of a water world here!

And a RINGED one at that! 

This is sunrise from what I believe is one day going to become a large river or lake. It had the appearance of a crater. I wouldn't be surprised if this planet's late heavy bombardment was just a few days ago, in terms of the universe that is.

This planet has active volcanos which will help in terms of fertility and temperature management in the long run. Provided, of course, they don't go off nonstop! This volcano has a height of approximately 16 km! It's twice the size of mount everest, yet it pales in comparison to Olympus Mons (who enjoys a height of around 22 km!)

This is the volcano in the far distance from the ocean.

As we see, no life on the bottom yet. Or maybe just not rendered by the game. But the water is quite dark down here!

Afraid I forgot to note the depth on this one. Sorry man.

Here we see another such planet. It doesn't look like much from here, but this was probably the most comfortable temperature I saw, at just a mildly toasty 58C.

Did I mention it's got gorgeous aurorae? And I see another volcano down there too! It wouldn't surprise me if I took a picture of that very volcano and got it mixed up with the previous planet. It's likely, knowing me.

The desert's not winning this fight, Duality. it looks like the water is taking over here! I can even see a drop down around the peninsula. Looks like quite a steep drop. Maybe it was a chasm or a canyon? Someone dropped the world and it cracked? Who knows?

This is another such peninsula. It makes me feel kind of like standing on the edge and waiting for Jack from Titanic to hold me. Only I'd scoot over and let him on the big door with me...

I believe that's all I had for you today man. I really hope you enjoyed them though, and if you have anything special you want to see don't hesitate to ask! Keep looking up!