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Scorched

A scorched husk orbiting too close to The Furnace. Whatever this world used to be, it's now a slag ball of melted silicates with a surface temperature that glows visibly in the dark.

The third planet in this system is nothing short of a hellscape—surface temperatures that would liquify lead, with vast oceans of molten rock that make my previous visit to Kepler-442b look positively temperate. I've seen scorched worlds before, but something about the rhythmic convection patterns across those lava seas, the way the stellar radiation catches the thermals... it genuinely arrests me, even after all these years. Still, I doubt there's anything down there worth the fuel expenditure to reach orbit. Another spectacular wasteland for the geological surveys, and then we move on.

— Captain Vex Moreau, Explorer's Guild Field Journal

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Physical Properties

Radius 2502 km

Mass 0.044 M⊕

Surface Gravity 0.32 g

Temperature 357 K (84°C)

Atmosphere None — None

Day Length 54.0 days (1296 hrs)

Orbital Period 1.1 years

Orbital Distance 1.04 AU