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LHS 1140 b

A dense super-Earth 49 light-years away. JWST hints at a nitrogen atmosphere, and it may be an ice-covered world with a liquid ocean under the side facing its star. It sits where a planet could be warm enough for liquid water, in the so-called habitable zone.

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EarthLHS 1140 b
Gravity18.36 m/s²1.87× Earth measured
Size1.73× Earthradius measured
Mass5.6× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ −47 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance48.9 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,096 Ka red dwarf
One year24.7 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2017transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of LHS 1140 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a frozen shell of ice.

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 LHS 1140

LHS 1140 c1.18× 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.