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GJ 163 b

GJ 163 b is a hot water-rich world orbiting a red dwarf star 49.3 ly away. A year there lasts 8.6 days. It was found using the radial velocity method: it makes its star wobble. Planets this size may be wrapped in thick gas; the game imagines it as a solid or water world you can walk on. Note: its size is estimated from its mass, only a minimum mass is known.

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EarthGJ 163 b
Gravity9.84 m/s²1× Earth estimated
Size3.25× Earthradius estimated
Mass10.6× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 165 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance49.3 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,500 Ka red dwarf
One year8.6 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2013radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of GJ 163 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on hot, steamy shores of a water world.

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 163

GJ 163 c1.09× 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.