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GJ 3998 d

GJ 3998 d is a temperate water-rich world orbiting a red dwarf star 59.2 ly away. A year there lasts 41.8 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. 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. It sits where a planet could be warm enough for liquid water, in the so-called habitable zone.

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EarthGJ 3998 d
Gravity10.87 m/s²1.11× Earth estimated
Size2.34× Earthradius estimated
Mass6.07× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 19 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance59.2 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,726 Ka red dwarf
One year41.8 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2025radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of GJ 3998 d. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a deep global ocean with rocky islands.

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 3998

GJ 3998 b1.29× EarthGJ 3998 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.