Welcome to my last blog on topics related to our Solar System! It has been fun time writing random stuff running through my head and calling it a blog. Here’s another:
It’s really interesting to see the connections between worlds in science fiction and worlds in our solar system. For example, let’s compare Mustafar and Io.
Their surfaces are colored differently. Mustafar is red, orange, and black whereas Io is yellow, with some greenish-yellow spots. They both have some whitish color as well. Due to the whitish surface, we can reasonably infer that Mustafar is far from its Star. Both, Mustafar and Io have volcanoes. So, we know that Mustafar is geologically active. Therefore, Mustafar must be tidally heated. For Mustafar to be tidally heated, it must be have an elliptical orbit, which would probably be caused by orbital resonance with other planets in the solar system. Since Mustafar is geologically active, we know that its surface is very young. Since it still in its liquid form, Mustafar is a very young planet and was probably just born, very similar to Io and other rocky planets in the early parts of the formation of our solar system. But not so early since parts are freezing up as seen by white tops. Since it is in its liquid form and early in the formation of the solar system, we can assume that its day is significantly smaller compared to Earth’s and has a rapid rotation rate.
As we can see, there are similarities between science fiction and reality, which brings up an interesting question. Are we living in a fictional world of another writer?
Ah, the places we'll go! 
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