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Febru-arty #9: Footfall on Methone
Methone is a teeny tiny moonlet sitting just outside Saturn's main ring system. It is almost entirely water ice, and its absurdly low density implies it's basically a giant snowball. The Cassini orbiter took a few photographs of Methone that revealed it to be egg-shaped and almost featureless, with no obvious craters, so it must be very soft and pliable indeed. Its close proximity to Saturn would give excellent views of the ringed world. Since Methone orbits Saturn in the same plane as the rings, the rings would be seen edge-on, and thus appear like a thin line or jet into the black.
Here, the first visitors from humanity's prosperous Titan colony maneuver down to set the first bootprint into Methone's snowy surface.
I used the free software Celestia to mock up the size of Saturn in Methone's sky, so this is "to scale."
I'm trying to do quick drawings every day in the month of February. Nine down, nineteen to go.
Here, the first visitors from humanity's prosperous Titan colony maneuver down to set the first bootprint into Methone's snowy surface.
I used the free software Celestia to mock up the size of Saturn in Methone's sky, so this is "to scale."
I'm trying to do quick drawings every day in the month of February. Nine down, nineteen to go.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Scenery
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Size 1280 x 720px
File Size 92.1 kB
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