Scientists believe that before the
discovery of Millenia, the planet was once similar to Earth. It was
once continental as Earth was. During that time, the weather was also
similar to that of the Earth. But when the polar icecaps melted, due
to greenhouse effect, temperature rose by approximately 8 degree celsius,
causing the sea level to rise by 1,000 ft., covering most of the continents
and leaving the once highest peak of the Planet Millenia surfacing the ocean. Millenia
is a planet that is similar to Earth, with 5% land and 95% water. It does
not have continents like we do. It is composed of three tropical islands
close to each other around the equator of the planet.
Millenia has 5 inner layers. The
crust, the lithosphere and asthenosphere, mantle, the outer core and the
inner core are the five layers of Millenia, which are similar to those layers
of the Earth. The surface rocks are made mostly of the chemical elements
oxygen and silicon, along with some metals. Beneath this is a thick layer
of hearview rock called the mantle, which encloses the inner and outer cores.
The solid metal inner core is the densest part of the planet. The liquid
outer core is continually moving, causing a constantly changing magnetic
field to envelop the planet.
When Millenia was first formed, the original elements in the atmosphere were products from the dissolved gases in the magma under the planet's crust. These gases were released through the crust in the form of volcanic eruptions. After many years of oxygen released from the photo synthetic organisms, the level of oxygen built up in the atmosphere. The atmosphere is similar to that of the Earth, but mainly contains 75% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 3% of hydrogen and other gases. It is divided into layers similar to Earth's atmospere: exosphere and magnetosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere and troposphere. The highest layer exosphere merges with the outerspace. The stratosphere contains the ozone gas, which can block harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun and protect the creatures on the planet. But interestingly enough, the ozone layer of Millenia is slowly being deplete just like Earth. The lowest layer, troposphere, is where the weather takes place.
Millenia also has different kinds of rocks
just as Earth does. 1) Igneous rocks were the ones that appeared first.
As volcanoes erupt molten magma, which cools and becomes solid, some magma
will cool as igneous rock underground. 2) Sedimentary rocks are formed from
material that previously made other rocks. Over time, the layers are buried
and squashed to become lithified, or hardened, into new rocks. 3) Metamorphic
rocks are made from preexisting rocks, by forms of recrystallization or
texture changes. This usually happens deep inside the planet's crust, where
it is hot enough and there is enough pressure from the overlying rocks to
make rocks recrystallize without melting.
The water cycle on Millenia circulates
the same way as that of the Earth. Water from the ocean evaporates by the
heat of the sun. The water vapor collects in the air forming clouds that
blows. The cool air inland causes the clouds to liquefy or solidify and
falls back to the ground in the form of rain completing the cycle.
This is the mountain range on the northern
island on Millenia. It was once the peak of a biggest canyon in this solar
system. Before the icecaps had melted, it reached an altitude of about 5,000
meters.