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Gl 686 b

Gl 686 b is a warm water-rich world orbiting a red dwarf star 26.6 ly away. A year there lasts 15.5 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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EarthGl 686 b
Gravity10.73 m/s²1.09× Earth estimated
Size2.46× Earthradius estimated
Mass6.62× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 106 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance26.6 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,656 Ka red dwarf
One year15.5 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2018radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Gl 686 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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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.