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The moon terraformed, old stuff. I used Clementine data for this, which was very poor. So I had to use some interpolation using some visual spectra images. I can't wait for the LOLA data to be available so I can do an update to this image.Related content
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The moon cannot be terraformed, it would have to be caeliformed. Great image though, love it!
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You could be right, but I think technology might come to our aid a bit in the next few thousand years. Β Consider Titan, less surface gravity than the moon, but has a 1.5 bar surface pressure. Β I think the current state of the moon and other worlds has a lot to do with how they developed, however with the current state of things could sustain a semi to fully permanent atmosphere.
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Amazing!! Β Could I use your art for personal project I working on? Β I'm creating a planetary guide for a sci-fi story series that I'm writing set that is set 11, 000 years from now, and the guide will help me visualise the worlds when writing. Β The guide will be for personal use only, but all pictures within it will be credited.
I will fully understand if you say no.
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Awesome!!! Your designs are just the thing to give me ideas for my story!Β
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Thanks, your art is pretty good too.
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I have some doubts about the moon being terraformed. moons are supposed to be rocky.
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I'll make sure to consult the moon gods before I terraform it then
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This is a seriously awesome picture! I would love to see a terraformed moon in the future, but I doubt such a thing would happen in my lifetime. The only problem would be getting water on the planet, I suppose melting down comets or recycling water from Earth might do. Atmosphere retention shouldn't be too difficult I think, as the Moon has close to the same gravity of Titan which actually has a very thick atmosphere (I think slightly less gravity, correct me if I'm wrong). Either way, this would be a really cool thing to see in the night sky.
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You should check out: [link] It's my newest. This one is old.
Yep getting water there would be the biggest problem, but not as daunting as you might think. To get an ocean like that you'd only need about as much as the fresh water on earth, which is only a small percentage of the total water.
The moon is smaller then Titan but does have more surface gravity due to it's higher density.
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Ah, it actually has more gravity? Than an atmosphere shouldn't be too much of a problem on it. And I really like your planet art, I only wish I could do 3D renders that good!
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Surface gravity. It's total mass is less than Titan.
Maybe you should check out terragen2, I've seen stuff from that program that looks pretty spectacular.
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Epic... I agree, seeing that in the sky would be awesome.
Mind you, the main problem with terraforming the moon wouldn't be water levels (which can be topped up with a few comets) but atmosphere retention. You'd need to set up something to dynamically stabilise the atmosphere, which would entail some pretty advanced chaos control... *shuts up*
good work
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Thanks or the fav. My expertise is molecular biology and I have a few idea for using bioengineering to retain atmosphere. I just don't have the money for the super computers needed to run the simulations to test feasibility. 
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That's cool. Imagine seeing that in the night sky! good job mate.
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With recent discoveries of water/ice deposits on the moon, who knows how far of something like this could be?
VERY beautiful! Island paradises galore
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Yeah, I don't know, but I heard that it equals maybe 1/3rd of the volume of water in the Atlantic ocean. Hard to know exactly.
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