BETA
Chapter 1
The discovery of TOI-1452 b
Chapter 2
Portrait of a super-Earth
Chapter 3
The 30 percent mystery
Chapter 4
The search for alien life
YOUR GOAL
Master of The ocean world TOI-1452 b
Ch 3 · The 30 percent mystery
futura Play the Thirty Percent Splash game to explore the mystery of TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet that might be a massive ocean world.
futura TOI-1452 b
Could thirty percent of your mass be a deep blue sea? (Deep blue sea!) Rolling under two red suns so far away (far away!)
futura Visual guide to TOI-1452 b, a potential ocean world exoplanet. Learn about its deep, floorless oceans in this educational infographic.
futura See the math behind TOI-1452 b, an exoplanet that might be an ocean world. Explore how scientists calculate its density and water composition.
Fun Fact
Deep oceans: An ocean on TOI-1452 b could be so deep that the immense pressure at the bottom would turn water into a solid, hot ice called Ice VII.
Glossary
water (noun)
A colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, and rivers on Earth. Computer models of TOI-1452 b suggest this liquid makes up nearly thirty percent of the exoplanet's mass.
A colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, and rivers on Earth. Computer models of TOI-1452 b suggest this liquid makes up nearly thirty percent of the exoplanet's mass.
Quiz
What happens to water at the bottom of a hundred-kilometer-deep ocean on an exoplanet?
Quiz
Which moon of Jupiter is known to have a massive subsurface ocean similar in water-mass ratio?