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Further explorations into the unknown can be seen in my DA "Space Art" gallery:

lexlothor.deviantart.com/galle…

Here I return to the richest planetary system in the Milky Way Galaxy.

This is a view of my hypothetical exoplanet Sedona as seen from its twin world Sequoia. Both are habitiable Earth-like worlds of lesser mass than Terra. The lower gravity on Sequoia allows for surface rocks to repose at steeper angles than would ever be possible on Earth. The canyon lands of both worlds boast natural stone arches and spires of incredible spans and height. The trees growing on these upturned sandstones are each as tall as skyscrapers. They are taller than the tallest terrestrial redwoods. These planets share a common orbit about their sun at the L5 trojan point of a gas giant in the habitable zone.

They are in tidal lock with each other. They orbit around a common barycenter. Each planet always keeps the same face pointed at the other. Their mutual motion is inclined slightly to the plane of the ecliptic. As a result they have mutual eclipsing events spaced half a year apart. Most of these eclipses are grazing events in which the penumbra of one world crosses only a portion of the other. As sunlight is filtered through the atmosphere of one, it passes only red light around its limb to the other. This bathes whole latitudes in red light for several hours during the eclipse seasons.

Here we see the shadow of Sequoia casting red light on the south polar cap of Sedona.

This image revisits the multiple planet system previously posted as "Trojan Earths":

[link]

art & text (c) John P. Alexander

2.5" x 3.5" art card rendered in Prismacolor pencil, Tombow markers & acrylic paints.

Description
Further explorations into the unknown can be seen in my DA "Space Art" gallery:

lexlothor.deviantart.com/galle…

Here I return to the richest planetary system in the Milky Way Galaxy.

This is a view of my hypothetical exoplanet Sedona as seen from its twin world Sequoia. Both are habitiable Earth-like worlds of lesser mass than Terra. The lower gravity on Sequoia allows for surface rocks to repose at steeper angles than would ever be possible on Earth. The canyon lands of both worlds boast natural stone arches and spires of incredible spans and height. The trees growing on these upturned sandstones are each as tall as skyscrapers. They are taller than the tallest terrestrial redwoods. These planets share a common orbit about their sun at the L5 trojan point of a gas giant in the habitable zone.

They are in tidal lock with each other. They orbit around a common barycenter. Each planet always keeps the same face pointed at the other. Their mutual motion is inclined slightly to the plane of the ecliptic. As a result they have mutual eclipsing events spaced half a year apart. Most of these eclipses are grazing events in which the penumbra of one world crosses only a portion of the other. As sunlight is filtered through the atmosphere of one, it passes only red light around its limb to the other. This bathes whole latitudes in red light for several hours during the eclipse seasons.

Here we see the shadow of Sequoia casting red light on the south polar cap of Sedona.

This image revisits the multiple planet system previously posted as "Trojan Earths":

[link]

art & text (c) John P. Alexander

2.5" x 3.5" art card rendered in Prismacolor pencil, Tombow markers & acrylic paints.