Do we actually have any raised bands around the twilight zones of tidally-locked moons or asteroids, anywhere in our solar system? (If not, considering the number of tidally-locked beasts we DO have, I gotta wonder if such ridges would actually form.)
I dunno. Like I said, I got this from a book, and I can’t remember the details. I do remember there were lots of equations and math and complicated scientific explanations (see how much attention I paid!) for the various planetary oddities that were described.
Harlan Ellison invited other writers to join in?
Does that mean it’ll never get published?
<ducking and running>
Here’s an interesting page that has animations from a climate model run for a tidally-locked Earth; temperatures on the night side only fall to 240 K while the day side reaches around 290K (interestingly enough, the current global average temperature is around 288 K - so a tidally-locked Earth is actually over 20 K cooler and below freezing, with the day side being similar to the current global average). Also, precipitation is virtually absent over the night side; in fact, there is net evaporation:
While they don’t show wind patterns, I’m pretty sure with all of that heating and convection/rain on the day side, you will see a large amount of rising air, with surface winds blowing towards the day side (a similar pattern occurs on Earth from convectively-driven circulations, like the Walker circulation over the Pacific).
