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Since version 2.0.44, the Vulcanus ground and Aquilo ice platform can be destroyed by nukes.
However, if you nuke fluid resources on Aquilo, the ice platform beneath them is destroyed, but the resources themselves remain floating above the ammonia sea.
The same issue occurs with solid resource patches placed on Aquilo using the editor.

On the other hand, both solid and fluid resources on Vulcanus are properly destroyed after a nuke.
Using the editor, if you pave Vulcanus with ice platforms, this issue does not occur.
Conversely, if you pave Aquilo with Vulcanian ground tiles, the issue reappears.

It seems that the problem is related to the planet itself, not the tile type.

I lean towards “just don’t do that” since there’s no reason to nuke anything on aquilo, and you can just build new platform under the spots to use them if wanted.