Molten Whirlpool planet
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Premise; A magma/lava planet tidally locked around its sun. The side facing the sun is always erupting lava, the dark side is a cooled shell, which sinks into the magma beneath in a global whirlpool.
How feasible is this and what other conditions would need to be met?
my own thought was that if the planet's rotation was along its horizontal axis, with the poles facing to and away from the sun the liquid matter would rotate in a similar manner.
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