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More visions of the planet Aertwaen can be seen in my DA "Paleo & Sci Illo" gallery:

[link]

This is another view of the giant fliers known at Alarns that live among the clouds of the exoplanet Wanna-1 (Aertwaen). Aertwaen has a ring system that casts its shadow across the equatorial regions of this small dry world. The planet is inclined 26 degrees to its rotational axis. This means that during its short year the ring shadow sweeps from Tropic to Tropic. The shadow line brings cooler temperatures and rain to the arid Equatorial Zone. Vast playa or evaporative plains fill up into shallow lakes for a few days each year. The life forms of these salt pans do their thing during these tiny rainy seasons.

This image depicts these airliner-sized creatures during their prepetual migration from pole to pole at the moment that they cross the umbra shadow of the planetary ring. The sunlight dances on the meter deep ephemeral lake beneath them. Aertwaen is a world of stark beauty. It is like the Kalihari Desert at the equator, the canyon lands of Utah in its mid-latitudes and the Caribean Sea above its Antarctic Circle. The South Pole is like the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii.

art & text (c) John P. Alexander

Description
More visions of the planet Aertwaen can be seen in my DA "Paleo & Sci Illo" gallery:

[link]

This is another view of the giant fliers known at Alarns that live among the clouds of the exoplanet Wanna-1 (Aertwaen). Aertwaen has a ring system that casts its shadow across the equatorial regions of this small dry world. The planet is inclined 26 degrees to its rotational axis. This means that during its short year the ring shadow sweeps from Tropic to Tropic. The shadow line brings cooler temperatures and rain to the arid Equatorial Zone. Vast playa or evaporative plains fill up into shallow lakes for a few days each year. The life forms of these salt pans do their thing during these tiny rainy seasons.

This image depicts these airliner-sized creatures during their prepetual migration from pole to pole at the moment that they cross the umbra shadow of the planetary ring. The sunlight dances on the meter deep ephemeral lake beneath them. Aertwaen is a world of stark beauty. It is like the Kalihari Desert at the equator, the canyon lands of Utah in its mid-latitudes and the Caribean Sea above its Antarctic Circle. The South Pole is like the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii.

art & text (c) John P. Alexander