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Water is a substance we take for granted. It sustains life as we know it, and can be found in abundance in many areas across the earth. Imagine a world in which liquid water no longer exists. How might life adapt to a frozen world? Just such a scenario occurred millions of years ago on a planet orbiting a distant star, and it is this planet we shall now explore. Once a world of sprawling rivers and seas, this planet's magnetosphere began to degrade millions of years ago as its mantle cooled and plate tectonics ground to a halt. With such a weak magnetosphere, the planet's atmosphere has thinned, and average temperatures never rise above freezing. Seas and rivers have given way to glaciers, and the only percipitation that falls is snow. In the cold air under a sun far larger and brighter than our own ice and snow sublimates directly into water vapor rather than melting. This effect creates sharp spires of ice and snow known as Penitentes, which dominate much of the landscape. Life on this planet has evolved to thrive under these conditions, and a couple of examples can be seen here. A highland 'plucker' (an animal that behaves much like a terran woodpecker) searches a penitente for its prey. The 'ice carrots' it pursues are orange photosynthetic organisms that vaguely resemble their namesake, but can't really be considered plants. They spend most of their time anchored to burrows in penitente spires, where they heat the ice into water for consumption through chemosybthetic processes. When their chosen spire eventually sublimates away however, they extend radial legs and wander accross the landscape in search of a sutible replacement. As the plucker approaches, they retreat into their ice burrows, hoping their hideways are deep enough to evade it's long mandibles. #scifiart #worldbuilding #alienplanet #creaturedesign #inkdrawing #illustration #fantasyillustration #alien #environmentdesign #frozenplanet #penitente #ice https://www.instagram.com/p/CAiHSKEj4BO/?igshid=kedsk0nne8nd

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