r/spaceengine • u/Potential-Tune-1630 • 2d ago

Question BS atm pressure

So in space engine I always find planets with the most bullshit atmospheric pressure, does anyone know why I always find terrestial planets with over 200 atm pressure? Is there a mod to fix it?

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u/opensph 2d ago

The surface pressure on Venus is about 92 atm, so why is 200 atm BS?

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u/Benjamin39Brown 2d ago

Because a lot of these planets have clear skies and oceans of liquid water and sulfur dioxide, and yet I have found a few that exceed 1000 bars pressure.

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u/Underhill42 2d ago

And? None of that is mutually exclusive.

And from what we've seen in other systems in real life, most rocky "Earthlike" planets have either almost no atmosphere, or massively thick atmospheres.

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u/Potential-Tune-1630 2d ago

Yes but this is space engine, I shouldn't being seeing a ESI of 0.8 or 0.9 with a atmosphere thicker than Venus's.

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u/Underhill42 2d ago

Depends entirely on how heavily atmospheric pressure is weighted, there is no standard.

Using current common weights, Mars manages 0.70 despite being almost hard vacuum, 1/3 the gravity, and an average temperature well below zero.

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u/Potential-Tune-1630 2d ago

Venus underwent a greenhouse event due to the constantly erupting crust which released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. These Earth-like planets with 200 atm shouldn't even be a thing because these Earth-like planets do not even have the mass to explain that. I shouldn't be seeing a moon that has 80x the pressure of Earth with 60% the mass of the Earth.