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GJ 1214 b

GJ 1214 b is a hot large super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star 47.8 ly away. A year there lasts 1.6 days. It was found using the transit method: it dims its star as it passes in front. Planets this size may be wrapped in thick gas; the game imagines it as a solid or water world you can walk on.

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EarthGJ 1214 b
Gravity11.07 m/s²1.13× Earth measured
Size2.73× Earthradius measured
Mass8.41× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 294 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance47.8 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,101 Ka red dwarf
One year1.6 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2009transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of GJ 1214 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on bare, cratered rock with no air.

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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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.