Suloom

Overview

Suloom is a hot, Mars-like D-class planet orbiting a red dwarf, known as Saihera, in the Flower Galaxy. It hosts multicellular life on its terrestrial surface, taking on many forms across the landscape, and is famous throughout the galaxy because of this.

Properties

Suloom is smaller and less massive than Earth, which means it is classified as a 'sub-earth'. Its high density implies that there is a substantial iron core inside the planet, generating its weak (but still existing) magnetic field. The small magnetosphere is not very effective at blocking the stellar wind from Saihera (its parent star) and that constantly whittles down its ever-thinning atmosphere, possibly threatening the existence of the life below.

Owing to Suloom's proximity to its parent star, it is tidally locked, which means one side of the planet constantly faces the star. From space though, the planet seems uniform and there seems not to be any differentiation between the terminator line and the point below its red dwarf star, which is evidence of some kind of temperature distribution around the planet. What is even more striking is that the night side, while not as explored as the dayside (for obvious reasons), seems so far to have the exact same terrain and environment as the dayside! (Aside from a temperature difference of 2-3°C)

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