




- Some current limitations of the climate model are:
- We have not accounted for the angular size of the sun/host star or atmospheric refraction.
- We have not accounted for any weather effects including clouds.
- We have not accounted for atmospheric heating due to aurora or magnetic fields (for example, Jupiter’s poles are cooler than the equator with our current model, while it is known that Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is hottest at its poles due to aurora).
- Volcanoes do not currently affect local temperature.
- Eclipses, and shadows of planetary rings do not currently affect temperature.
- Asteroids do not display local surface temperatures (minimum and maximum surface temperatures are displayed in the wiki for asteroids, but local surface temperatures as a function of latitude and longitude are not displayed).
- Features such as permanently shadowed craters or mountain and cliff shadows have no effect on local temperature.
- Temperatures are not calculated inside of liquid bodies (lakes and oceans).