Planet:

Name: Maenor

Mean orbital radius: 188m km

Rotational period 24.01 hours

Planetary diameter: 9900 km

Year length: 421.40 days

Average temp: ~267K (terraforming project, projected final temperature at 285K)

Atmosphere: Varying, as terraforming project

            Original atmosphere

Pressure: ~0.4 bar

Composition:             91% nitrogen

                                    1% oxygen

                                    6% carbon dioxide

                                    3% other, mostly water vapour, argon, krypton

Summary: Atmosphere was originally thin and inhospitable, though would have not ruled our indigenous life, though no life had been found before terraforming.

Projected final atmosphere

Pressure: 0.80 bar

Composition:             76% nitrogen

                                    20% oxygen

                                    2% other, mostly water vapour, carbon dioxide

Summary: Breathable to all federation races after a period of acclimatization.

Density: 5.60

Surface g: 9.64m/s/s

Axial inclination: 28.2°

Magnetic field: Moderate, fluctuating across long time scales, but stable.

Moons: No moons, and no ring systems.

Summary: Life bearing planet

Surface coverage:

The planet’s surface is rarely interrupted by open water, which is an improvement on the totally arid world before terraforming. Since the start of terraforming in 2080, the amount of water on the surface has greatly increased, this has for the most part been delivered by aerobraking and detonating captured icy bodies. The project outcome is to arrive with an oceanic coverage of about 40%, with a large ice filled plains in the polar regions.

Geology:

 The planet is essentially geologically dead, without oceans, and a cooling core, plate tectonics rapidly disappeared, with few features visible in these times. Most dominant features are from volcanic uplift, and the cracking caused by ground movement. Most of the planet is dominated by dune filled plains. There has been no volcanism for at least 100 million years, though outgassing continues from the cooling core, which appears to have generated the freshwater subsurface aquifers.

Climate:

Before the terraforming project the weather consisted of the dry winds propelling the plain dunes, and the deposition of thin layers of ice in the shaded poles at their winter season. Now with the terraforming project underway the weather has become far more turbulent, the thickening atmosphere regularly kicks up dust storms in the equatorial regions. Precipitation is still rare despite the introduction of water, and most of this is snowfall. At project completion the climate is hoped to produce temperate climes across the planet.

Life:

The life on the planet has been introduced as part of the terraforming project, at the moment this consists mainly of the microbial and plants species which have been cultured and released. The project hopes to finish with a viable biosphere based around ecologies found in the temperate regions of Gadarren.

Colonies:

As the planet is uninhabitable at the moment, the population is restricted to environment controlled research posts scattered across the planets surface. The population varies with the seasons from about 120,000 to 250,000, where the increase is prior to spring periods where biological culturing and monitoring requires more people.