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Real-life sci-fi world #6: Pandora (from the movie Avatar), the habitable moon of a gas giant planet – PLANETPLANET
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Real-life sci-fi world #6: Pandora (from the movie Avatar), the habitable moon of a gas giant planet – PLANETPLANET
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Real-life sci-fi world #6: Pandora (from the movie Avatar), the habitable moon of a gas giant planet – PLANETPLANET
In the movie Avatar, the moon Pandora orbits a huge gas giant, Polyphemus. If this is the case, wouldn't Pandora be tidally locked hence it would not have the day and night
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