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Wolf 1061 c

Wolf 1061 c is a temperate water-rich world orbiting a red dwarf star 14 ly away. A year there lasts 17.9 days. It was found using the radial velocity method: it makes its star wobble. 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 size is estimated from its mass, only a minimum mass is known. It sits where a planet could be warm enough for liquid water, in the so-called habitable zone.

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EarthWolf 1061 c
Gravity12.14 m/s²1.24× Earth estimated
Size1.66× Earthradius estimated
Mass3.41× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ 26 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance14 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,342 Ka red dwarf
One year17.9 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2015radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Wolf 1061 c. 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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Other planets around Wolf 1061

Wolf 1061 b1.3× EarthWolf 1061 d1.06× 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.