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NickB79

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8. Quick question: how would a hydrological cycle work on a tidally locked planet like these?

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2016, 04:15 PM

May 2016

The two closest planets are apparently tidally locked due to their close orbit, so that would make one side hot, and the other ice cold.

If water is constantly evaporating off the sunward side, and being precipitated out on the cold side, wouldn't the water eventually end up almost entirely in ice caps far from where it's warm enough to support life?

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