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GJ 1002 c

GJ 1002 c is a cold Earth-size planet orbiting a red dwarf star 15.8 ly away. A year there lasts 21.2 days. It was found using the radial velocity method: it makes its star wobble. Its temperature could allow liquid water, which makes it a habitable-zone candidate, not a confirmed habitable world. Note: its size is estimated from its mass, only a minimum mass is known. It sits where a planet could be warm enough for liquid water, in the so-called habitable zone.

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EarthGJ 1002 c
Gravity11.03 m/s²1.12× Earth estimated
Size1.1× Earthradius estimated
Mass1.36× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ −91 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance15.8 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,024 Ka red dwarf
One year21.2 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2022radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of GJ 1002 c. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a frozen shell of ice.

Pack the right suit. Choose 3 of 6 modules (cooling, heating, pressure hull, extra oxygen, radiation shield, jetpack), complete 3 surveys and get back to the lander before your oxygen runs out.

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Other planets around GJ 1002

GJ 1002 b1.02× Earth

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Sizes, masses, temperatures and orbits come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (Planetary Systems Composite table). Values marked estimated are calculated from the other measurements; the surface and air are imagined for the game.