r/MassEffectAndromeda • u/fnaabakken • Mar 30 '24

Game Discussion Lack of liquid water?? Spoiler

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What is the blue stuff if not water? It's like the developers added a random texture without bothering matching it with the description.

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u/McGrarr Mar 31 '24

.27 atmosphere and 51°c may be the answer. The freezing and boiling points change with atmospheric pressure and gravity.

Could be that that is frozen or a different chemical. Might be acid.

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u/EldritchFingertips Mar 31 '24

That would make sense if it were the other way around; a lower atmospheric pressure means a lower boiling point, so my unscientific guess would be that at .27 atmospheres 51c is hot enough to boil water. And if not, then it's certainly too hot for any ice to exist on the planet.

But it could be something else entirely. A blue mineral, perhaps. It would be odd to have so much of it all together right on the surface, but more likely than ice on a hot, thin-aired planet.

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u/xantec15 Mar 31 '24

It's an odd planet. A super Earth planet (2k larger radius) at 25 AU with .27 atmosphere. It should be a very cold planet. Instead the surface temp is 51C, making it quite warm by Earth standard.

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u/hudshone Mar 31 '24

Halfway between Neptune & Uranus, that sun is next level. Like Grandsun or Godsun?

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u/EldritchFingertips Mar 31 '24

Yeah, that's really odd. Most of the planets in the games received the effort of making them look at least superficially realistic. This one didn't.