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GJ 422 b

GJ 422 b is a temperate water-rich world orbiting a red dwarf star 41.3 ly away. A year there lasts 20.1 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 422 b
Gravity9.79 m/s²1× Earth estimated
Size3.33× Earthradius estimated
Mass11.07× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 20 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance41.3 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,323 Ka red dwarf
One year20.1 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2014radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of GJ 422 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a deep ocean under a hydrogen sky.

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.