Gold and Dust, The Singer, Kepler 78b

Pumping Station 8

Water is life on Aker. 

Gustav Crater, roughly 10 kilometers from the Proxima One base, is especially rich in it and supplies the thousands of gallons that Proxima One needs everyday for everything from agriculture to spacesuit cooling systems.

During a lull in the constant dust storms that ravage the planet's terminator, where day turns to night, technicians from the colony travel via rover to Pumping Station 8, which has been in dire need of maintenance for weeks. Luckily, with the arrival of the team of technicians, the potential disaster of its shutdown has been averted

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Nightingale (left) and its moon, Wellington.

 The only other planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, Nightingale, so named for the peculiar whistle-like noises produced by its radio emissions, is a run-of-the-mill gas planet, if small at only 80 times the mass of the Earth. It lingers at the very edge of its sun's gravitational sphere of influence, alone except for its single moon, Wellington.

Wellington, a roughly Earth-sized ball of ice and rock, is a near-double for our own Titan. Because of the tentative evidence found at Titan, Wellington has been the target of nearly every probe launched from Aker. Time will tell if the similarities between Titan and Wellington extend beyond climate...

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Kepler 78b

 Discovered just this year, this little, Earth-sized world whizzes around its sun in just over 8 hours, due to its 1/100th AU orbit. With a day-side temperature between 3680 and 5120 degrees Fahrenheit, Kepler 78b has been called a "lava-planet" by the astronomers who discovered it. It's been confirmed to glow in the visible spectrum

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This one doesn't really have anything to do with any of the others. It's just that its subject was featured in the news, and I thought it'd be interesting to do my own impression what this odd little planet might look like.

The motion blur effect is purely artistic license.