The Tulkun is a whale-like creature native to Pandora's ocean. They are similar to Earth's whales and possess a form of sentience with their own language, laws, and philosophy which makes them capable of bonding with Na'vi in a more spiritual way than other animals. Each member of the Metkayina Clan forms a life-long bond with a tulkun as a spirit brother/sister. Once violent creatures who continually warred with one another, they are now completely pacifistic, refusing to kill even to defend themselves. As such they banish those who commit violence. They are introduced in Avatar: The Way of Water, in which humans have begun hunting them to harvest their brain enzymes for creating anti-aging remedies called amrita. Jake Sully's son, Lo'ak, bonds with an outcast tulkun named Payakan after he is banished for killing the whalers who killed his mother. Hallowed Ground · Lost Cathedral · Willow Island · Willow Tomb · Willow Tree ( FEBA · Torukä Na'rìng) · Willowglade ( Cavern of Songs) Construction on the UES Pandora was completed by 2067 and vessel launched on its 29-year long journey at a warp factor of .53 towards Alpha Centuria 4.37-light years away. 2072 saw the launch of the UES Voyager with seven thousand, five hundred colonists, soon followed by the UES Mariner in 2075 with nine-thousand and the UES Constellation in 2078 with ten-thousand. With each completed ship, construction times decreased, scale of ships increased and the capable warp factor of each ship improved.

Other than the richness of varying colors, the trees resemble those of Earth. They have the familiar trunks, branches and leaves, though due to the difference in gravity, many of the shapes appear strange to humans and the proportions are greater because of the lower gravity. The trees and plant life of Pandora have formed electrochemical connections between their roots and effectively act as neurons, creating a moon-wide "brain" that has achieved sentience, which is known to the Na'vi as Eywa. We are currently improving the fitting and sampling procedure with Pandora, so that priors can be chosen in a more sophisticated way. To fit the quadratic limb darkening coefficients more efficiently, for example, Pandora will offer a conversion routine to calculate and based on q 1 and q 2 from the unit hypercube. This procedure has been shown to reduce the prior volume ( Kipping 2013).

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Clouded Forest · Dusk Valley · Grave's Bog · Hallelujah Mountains ( Mons Veritatis · Iknimaya) · Hanging Gardens · Highlands · Kinglor Forest · Kxanìa Taw · Needle Hills · Plains of Goliath · Skycliffs · Stalker's Valley · Swotulu · Tantalus · Torukä Na'rìng · Three Brothers · Upper Plains · Vaderas Hollow · Valley of Mo'ara · Valley of Origins · Wetlands Finally, we demonstrate Pandora’s potential for exomoon searches by first simulating a physically plausible - though not necessarily representative – system of a Sun-like star, a Jupiter-sized transiting planet at 1AU from the star, and a Neptune-sized moon in a relatively tight orbit of five planetary radii in a 1.28 days period around the planet. We attribute a cadence and noise properties to the simulated model that corresponds to a photometrically inactive, Sun-like star as it could be observed with the 2026 PLATO mission. Our Monte Carlo search for the exomoon with UltraNest takes about 5 h on a standard laptop. Milani, Matteo (November 24, 2009). "An interview with Paul Frommer, Alien Language Creator for Avatar". Unidentified Sound Object . Retrieved October 15, 2010. Anvil also published a number of stories which he and John Campbell referred to as the Colonization Series:Desowitz, Bill (December 21, 2009). " Avatar: The Game Changer". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on December 29, 2009 . Retrieved December 3, 2021. The Akula is a Dunkleosteus like creature. They have 3 sets of jaws and is the apex predator of the Pandoran ocean. They are introduced in Avatar: The Way of Water, where Jake's son Lo'ak fights of one after he is stranded in the ocean, before being saved by Payakan. Pandora receives significant light from Alpha Centauri B (ACB). As a result, Pandoran nights are never dark during half of the Polyphemian year, but instead are more like Earthly dusk. At the closest point in its orbit, ACB is about 2,300 times as bright as Earth's full moon; at its furthest point, it is still one hundred and seventy times as bright. During the other half of the year when ACB is in the daytime sky, many Pandoran nights are illuminated by both Polyphemus's huge disk and the reflected light from other nearby moons. Truly dark nights are uncommon. Polyphemus occasionally eclipses ACB at night for about one hundred minutes, but the light reflected by the planet still keeps the night from being dark. Our three-body system is a typical nested Keplerian system. For one thing, we assume that the orbits of the planet and the moon are not perturbed by the stellar gravitational force and that they orbit their common local barycenter in eccentric orbits. For another thing, we assume that the planet–moon barycenter follows a Keplerian orbit itself around the star.