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Description Further explorations into the unknown can be seen in my DA "Space Art" gallery:

lexlothor.deviantart.com/galle…

Here I return to the richest planetary system in the Milky Way Galaxy.

These planets share a common orbit about their sun at the L5 trojan point of a gas giant in the habitable zone. During their early formation, these proto-earths shared meteoric debris. This insured that if only one had developed microbial life the process of panspermia would insure that all of the worlds residing at this Lagrangian point would evolve complex life. The trees seen on the rock faces are each as tall as the Empire State Building. Lower gravity on this earth-like world permits the height of these trees and permits a steeper angle of repose of mountains and the opportunity for natural arches of vast size to stand up under their own weight.

The challenge for this drawing as to depict the interplay of mutually occulting planetary objects as seen through the light scatter of an oxygen rich daylight sky. Yes, I was inspired by traditional Chinese landscape paintings when I created this this tiny image.

This image revisits the multiple planet system previously posted as "Trojan Earths":

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art & text (c) John P. Alexander
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