https://twitter.com/Bungie/status/483684768098160640

Looks like Mars...

Specifically, looks like a portion of a Mars based PVP map we have seen before.

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Given the overall bright lighting, even thought there is an obvious focus of light farther ahead (behind the structure), as well as the solar panels (?) all over the skybox, I wonder if that's Mercury.

Given the overall bright lighting, even thought there is an obvious focus of light farther ahead (behind the structure), as well as the solar panels (?) all over the skybox, I wonder if that's Mercury.

It appears to me to be a different perspective of this scene that we caught a glimpse of before (I forget which video). On Mars.
Note the now clearer H2O "sign" seen in the background of this image above

Mods/Claude, if a local copy of this image exists please localize my post. Tried to search around here but couldn't find it. Rooftop_desktop from Bnet

I can see how it's a different view of the same scene, and have circled the features that match up. Interestingly, the level has changed a bit since the older picture.

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Interesting how less faded it looks now.

Tweet here.

I mean, assuming the giant blue ball of fire is the sun through a weird kind of atmosphere.

I suspect it is. There's Vex architecture in the pic and Venus has been mentioned in connection with them. There's that reference to the jungles of Venus too.

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C'mon guys, we're not the target audience for their Tweets.

What sort of gases would be able to filter our sun's light into blue?

C'mon guys, we're not the target audience for their Tweets.

Thread was there, no harm in adding to it.

Sometimes on Earth, when there are fires going, or in the wake of a dust-spewing volcano, there is enough red-scattering dust in the air to recreate the look of Mars. The atmosphere does scatter a lot of blue light, but not all blue light. Just enough so the sun looks slightly yellow. The dust so effectively takes care of the red light that what blue light does come down from the sun is the only light that can be seen clearly. The dust doesn't necessarily have to be all around the viewer. If the dust is far off toward the west or east, the sun can be behind it without the viewer necessarily noticing anything wrong - except the sun turning blue.

When The Sun Turns Blue

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What sort of gases would be able to filter our sun's light into blue?

Earth's atmosphere preferentially scatters blue light through a process called Raleigh scattering. The color of the sky (on any planet) is mostly dependent upon the size of the molecules that make up the atmosphere as well as how thick the atmosphere is. On Earth at sunset the sky looks more red because light from the Sun has to travel through significantly more air to get to us, and the blue light is scattered so much along the way that it becomes so diffuse we can't see it anymore. Mars, on the other hand, has a lot of dust in the atmosphere which increases the average size of the particles in the air, so the scattered light is shifted a bit to the red. But there's also a whole lot less air on Mars to scatter light from the Sun, so the true color of the sky is reddish-grayish-blueish. This is approximate true color.

Interestingly, sulfate particles have been demonstrated on Earth to turn the sky even brighter blue. So perhaps the increased volcanism on Venus would explain the bluer sky on a hypothetical post-Traveler "jungly" Venus.

I have two(2) upward pointing thumbs to give you.

Edit: facing is now pointing.

Interestingly, sulfate particles have been demonstrated on Earth to turn the sky even brighter blue. So perhaps the increased volcanism on Venus would explain the bluer sky on a hypothetical post-Traveler "jungly" Venus.

Now that's what I'm talking about! IIRC, Venus already has an incredible concentration of sulfur in its atmosphere, so maybe the terraforming (or at least whatever happened after the Golden Age) couldn't quite eliminate it.

Here's to hoping.

I've been waiting for a couple locations to pop up since the GDC concept art reveal back last year. I hope Venus has a great meta game location, not to far from the beginning or end, right in the middle.

The other location I'm hoping comes up soon is Europa