04-20-2023, 12:11 PM
Are there examples in OA of a one planet hosting major ecosystems of different biochemistries? By "major" I just mean something more extensive than things like the chemosynthetic bacteria in acid pools around geysers or oceanic tube worms on our planet.
Is this likely? A tidally locked planet has a cold-adapted ecosystem on the cold side, a "normal" carbon based ecosystem in the terminator zone, and a hot-adapted ecosystem on the hot side. The composition of the atmosphere will be very mixed, I know. I don't know what the sulfur breathers will do with the methane, or the methane breathers will do with the SO2.
Is this likely? A tidally locked planet has a cold-adapted ecosystem on the cold side, a "normal" carbon based ecosystem in the terminator zone, and a hot-adapted ecosystem on the hot side. The composition of the atmosphere will be very mixed, I know. I don't know what the sulfur breathers will do with the methane, or the methane breathers will do with the SO2.