WORLDWALKK2-138 b
K2-138 b is a scorching super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star 660.7 ly away. A year there lasts 2.4 days. It was found using the transit method: it dims its star as it passes in front.
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Gravity13.34 m/s²1.36× Earth measured
Size1.51× Earthradius measured
Mass3.1× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 884 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance661 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star5,356 Ka Sun-like star
One year2.4 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2017transit
What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined
Nobody has seen the surface of K2-138 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on bare, cratered rock with no air.
- Air: None (bare rock). Surface pressure: almost none.
- A 70 kg explorer would feel like 95 kg.
- A jump that clears 50 cm on Earth would reach about 37 cm.
- With almost no air, a hammer and a feather fall side by side, and sound cannot travel.
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.