We could live on the planet Dune created by the writer Frank Herbert in his science fiction novel published in 1965 and that we have recently seen on the screen of our cinemas by the hand of director Denis Villeneuve.
Herbert described in great detail a sparsely populated desert wasteland with temperatures that would reach 70ºC and where rain does not occur naturally and there are no surface bodies of water.
Faced with this bleak scenario , could such a planet support human life?
The scientists fed all the available data from the planet into a supercomputer, using climate models commonly used to predict the weather and climate on Earth, as well as the topography of the planet and its orbit around its host star – which has an essentially circular orbit. – and discovered that despite the indications, much of Arrakis would be habitable.
Essentially, in Arrakis the warmest months in the tropics would reach 45 ° C, while in the coldest months they would not fall below 15 ° C.
