Home › Planets › K › Kepler-657 b

Kepler-657 b

Kepler-657 b is a hot large super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star 5,518 ly away. A year there lasts 24.5 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. Note: its mass is estimated from its size.

▶ Land on Kepler-657 bFree · plays in your browser
EarthKepler-657 b
Gravity9.66 m/s²0.98× Earth estimated
Size3.52× Earthradius measured
Mass12.2× Earthestimated
Temperature≈ 343 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance5,518 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star5,808 Ka Sun-like star
One year24.5 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2016transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Kepler-657 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on dry, dusty desert rock.

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.

Play Kepler-657 b

Similar worlds nearby

Kepler-1847 b5,525 light-yearsKepler-832 b5,506 light-yearsKepler-1463 b5,504 light-yearsKepler-1510 b5,532 light-yearsKepler-748 b5,564 light-yearsKepler-1980 b5,575 light-years

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.