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Kepler-1540 b

Kepler-1540 b is a temperate water-rich world orbiting an orange star 799 ly away. Its star system has 2 stars. A year there lasts 125.4 days. It was found using the transit method: it dims its star as it passes in front. Its temperature could allow liquid water, which makes it a habitable-zone candidate, not a confirmed habitable world. 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 mass is estimated from its size. It sits where a planet could be warm enough for liquid water, in the so-called habitable zone.

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EarthKepler-1540 b
Gravity10.7 m/s²1.09× Earth estimated
Size2.49× Earthradius measured
Mass6.76× Earthestimated
Temperature≈ −7 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance799 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star4,540 Kan orange dwarf, in a system of 2 stars
One year125.4 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2016transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Kepler-1540 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.