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K2-12 b

K2-12 b is a scorching large super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star 1,064 ly away. A year there lasts 8.3 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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EarthK2-12 b
Gravity8.57 m/s²0.87× Earth measured
Size2.44× Earthradius measured
Mass5.2× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 753 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance1,064 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star5,672 Ka Sun-like star
One year8.3 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2015transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of K2-12 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a molten surface of lava seas.

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.