
There is evidence of water on Mool in the ice caps and cloud vapor in the atmosphere, but there is no liquid water on this planet.
Noticeably smaller than Qukoha, it is also
much colder, averaging about -112 degrees F (223 K). Mool is near
enough to Kisc to support warmer temperatures, but a difference
in planet mechanics keeps it from enjoying a climate like Qukoha's.
Mool's thin atmosphere has very little carbon dioxide, causing
the planet to only have very little greenhouse effect. Much of
Mool's carbon dioxide has been absorbed into its rock. The same
has occurred on Qukoha, but Qukoha's plate tectonics allow the
carbon dioxide to be melted back out of the rock as it is subducted,
then released into the atmosphere periodically through volcanism.
Mool has almost no plate tectonics and therefore nearly all of
its carbon dioxide remains trapped in the planet's rock.
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