#atmospheres — Public Fediverse posts

Katabatic winds? Twin suns? Even georeactors. All familiar ingredients, but combine them in one planet, and you have one truly alien world...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/08/06/of-georeactors-katabatics-twin-suns-and-climatology/

This post's featured image is "Ripples in the Sky", captured in Iowa by me (hey, pressure waves figure, so why not?).

#scifi #sciencefiction #worldbuilding #geology #climatology #climate #alienplanet #planet #planetology #atmospheres #oceans

The greenhouse-blanketed lush super-Earth is a tired trope, but a more rugged version with nigh-Martian highlands? Now we're cooking...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/12/23/cascadia-below-mars-above/

This post's featured image is "The Bard" by John Martin.

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With the solar motion of Mercury, the geography of Antarctica, and aspects that are utterly alien, my planet Cerberus is coming along nicely.

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/12/16/fleshing-out-cerberus-antarctic-vibes/

This post's featured image is a NASA satellite image of the Antarctic Dry Valleys.

#worldbuilding #planet #continents #geology #tidallock #spinorbitresonance #atmospheres #orbits #alienplanet #climate #scifi #sciencefiction

From its caves to its dangerous-yet-forgiving weather, my planet of dry, thin air evokes classic sci-fi. And there's a reason for that...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/12/11/cerberus-a-world-out-of-classic-sci-fi/

This post's featured image is Badwater Basin at night (a place denizens of my planet might find familiar, though thick and murky).

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Wanting oceans and clear skies around the nearest twin-sun pair to Earth imposes some rather alien but spectacular results: red skies, black seas, -200 degree temperatures, and more...

Read the whole story at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/10/02/black-seas-red-sky-three-suns-worldbuilding-ez-aquarii/

This post's featured image is a red-shifted version of Ivan Aivazovsky's "The Black Sea".

#worldbuilding #oceans #atmospheres #exoticoceans #exoticatmospheres #alienlife #scifi #sciencefiction #alienoceans #seas #methane #carbonmonoxide #twinsuns

An Earth twin...and a world of indescribable memory. In my sci-fi universe I begin to explore the secrets of Mu Cassiopeiae...

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/09/21/the-pale-blue-dot-filtered-through-a-dream/

This post's featured image is Ivan Aivazovsky's "Stormy Sea".

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