Dangerous Sunrise on Gliese 876d
Illustration Credit & Copyright: Inga Nielsen (Hamburg Obs., Gate to Nowhere)
Posted on 05/21/2008 3:02:40 PM PDT by sig226
Explanation: On planet Gliese 876d, sunrises might be dangerous. Although nobody really knows what conditions are like on this close-in planet orbiting variable red dwarf star Gliese 876, the above artistic illustration gives one impression. With an orbit well inside Mercury and a mass several times that of Earth, Gliese 876d might rotate so slowly that dramatic differences exist between night and day. Gliese 876d is imagined above showing significant volcanism, possibly caused by gravitational tides flexing and internally heating the planet, and possibly more volatile during the day. The rising red dwarf star shows expected stellar magnetic activity which includes dramatic and violent prominences. In the sky above, a hypothetical moon has its thin atmosphere blown away by the red dwarf's stellar wind. Gliese 876d excites the imagination partly because it is one of the few extrasolar planets known to be close to the habitable zone of its parent star.
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That’s a wonderful graphic devolve. How clever you were to expand that star to make a ‘beam’ coming down!!
Very neat! The spaceship looked blue in the other one and a greenish-grey here. New beams shooting down too!
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I figured I could make one .gif
The Beam.gif goes up & down
The Saucer still rotates
Sometimes things come out better than we planned -
I would tediously have to composite each frame of the beam onto each frame of the saucer to get an effect. Sometimes it gets more complicated too.
The final ‘look’ is what counts.
Your weird methods are usually what makes them “stand out”!!
EXPLODE!
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