between working on my ship addons i like to work on my Tau Ceti planetary system add on.
I thought about doing a tidally locked earth like-moon of a super Jovian.
this is a work in progress, i have no cloud textures on it at this time.
the line between the permanent ice and habitual land seems too sharp to me.. but what do you think?
Er-hem. Now I look at that image, I think it rather is Manicouagan lake!!! (but that's OK!)
You'll have problems justifying the tidal lock to the superjovian though. Well, not the lock itself, but to have a permanent dark side it has to be tidally locked to the STAR, not the gas giant. And Moons can't be tidally locked to a star - they have to be locked to the planet.
After running it a while in Celestia i got that impression too.
Like i said it is a work in progress.
and yes that is the crater. got it off of the NASA site.