#solarballs proteus

[mio00-00]

Finally I caught up with Solarballs. I had to draw my favorite little moons 😭❤️ I love the sibling moments between them. Proteus, my precious, is growing up 🥹

[deerwatcher78]

A very scuffed height chart for Down to Earth (with human for scale)

Left to right: Phobos (lower end of minor moons), Proteus (upper end of minor moons), Titania (average for major moons), Ganymede (upper end of major moons and lower end of rockies), Earth (upper end of rockies), Neptune (lower end of giants), Jupiter (largest of the giants).

The human for scale is around 5'7''

[victoryfirefox]

Neptunian moons - Two grey brothers

Alarms, Triton is not wearing his sunglasses! Rare footage👀🕶️👌

[weepingicegiant]

I’m so hungry

[nightsunecilpse]

Neptune with his two moons, as they're simply enjoying the day.

[dreamie-artsss]

After Jupiter babysitted the Neptunian moons

Triton: Hey, I’m back, I hope the little ones weren’t too… much trouble. Why are you crying?

Jupiter: *sniffs, lifts up Proteus with a smile* HE CALLED ME ‘UNCLE JUPS’!!!

Proteus: *confused blink*

[kallisto-kat]

I guess this is a part 2?

[drahornet]

my Proteus, Hippocamp, and Nereid designs

rambles beneath the cut :]

In my designs, all of Neptune's moons are merfolk.

Proteus is a leopard seal,

Hippocamp is a seahorse Hippocampy (self-explanatory)

Nereid is a humpback whale because of its eccentric orbit (Nereid has one of the most eccentric orbits of any known moon), the distance the moon travels (15 times farther from Neptune than the next closest known moon, Triton), and the moon's mass (Nereid also accounts for about 98% of the mass of Neptune's entire irregular satellite system altogether (excluding Triton), and as of my research about two-thirds the mass of all irregular moons combined, again ignoring Triton). 

So I felt that one of the largest and furthest traveling migratory animals was fitting.

Triton is a Sailfish

A few random notes 

Proteus and Hippocamp are nearly in a 11:13 mean-motion resonance

There is a hypothesis that proposed that Hippocamp may have originated from debris ejected from Proteus by the cometary impact that formed its largest crater, Pharos. Making Hippocamp a third generation moon. 

Also Proteus has a large impact crater named Pharos, which has a diameter around 250 km more than half the diameter of Proteus itself (400 kilometers). That's why I gave Proteus that scar on his face and also why I drew Proteus and Hippocamp together.

I try to incorporate the planet symbols and their numbers somewhere in all of my moon designs though specifically for the moons of Neptune i make it really prominent, in part to help me keep track of them when drawing, there are so many  

This has been in my drafts for literal months aaaaaaaaaaaa

There is so much i need to post on here its not even funny

+ bonus unfinished thing from 2024

am i ever going to finish this? no,

i might remake this but probably not

thank you for reading this :]

i know its been a solid minute and all