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K2-138 e

K2-138 e is a hot large super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star 660.7 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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EarthK2-138 e
Gravity11.07 m/s²1.13× Earth measured
Size3.39× Earthradius measured
Mass12.97× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 484 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance661 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star5,356 Ka Sun-like star
One year8.3 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2017transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of K2-138 e. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on bare, cratered rock with no air.

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 K2-138

K2-138 b1.36× EarthK2-138 c1.19× EarthK2-138 d1.39× EarthK2-138 f0.19× EarthK2-138 g0.48× 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.