Carbon World Magnetic Field Low Activity
Why is this a Carbon World? Your planet's carbon (87.5%) outweighs its oxygen (12.5%), so the mineralogy flips from silicate rock to carbide - a graphite crust over a diamond mantle. Carbon worlds form in carbon-rich disks where there isn't enough oxygen to bind it all into silicates. Instead carbon condenses directly into graphite, carbides, and - under pressure at depth - diamond. They form water-poor, so no life takes hold.
✓ Carbon: 87.5% (>=20% required) ✓ Carbon exceeds Oxygen: 87.5% > 12.5% ✓ Mass: 0.5x Earth (<=8x hycean ceiling)
Habitability Score Uninhabitable
Contributing Factors water 0
No water - the recipe has no hydrogen and oxygen to form it geology 60
Some geological activity provides slow nutrient cycling rotation 65
Slow rotation - significant day/night temperature variations, but life can adapt Organic Chemistry 20
Limited organic chemistry potential atmosphere 40
Atmosphere present but composition not ideal for life temperature 100
Optimal temperature range for liquid water and life (large moon stabilizes the axial tilt - steady seasons) magnetic Field 100
Magnetic field provides radiation protection Physical Properties Mass
0.50x Earth (2.99e+24 kg) Radius
0.79x Earth (5,057 km) This planet: 0.79× Earth radius Earth: 1× (baseline)
Surface Gravity
0.79x Earth (7.8 m/s²) Surface Temperature
310 K (37 °C / 98 °F) Rotation Period
6.0 hours/day (faster than Earth) This planet: 6 h/day Earth: 24 h/day Orbital Environment Star Type
G-type (Yellow (Sun-like)) Distance from Star
1.00 AU (150 million km) Atmosphere Carbon monoxide and methane haze over a graphite surface
Surface Characteristics Graphite plains and carbide ridges over a diamond mantle - a glittering coal-black world Closest Real Exoplanet Orbiting Kepler-138 Yours Kepler-138 e Mass 0.50 × Earth 0.43 × Earth Radius 0.93 × Earth 0.80 × Earth Density (composition) 3.42 g/cm³ 4.68 g/cm³ Temperature 309.9 K 292.0 K Starlight received 1.00 × Earth 1.73 × Earth Star temperature 5,600 K 3,841 K
Discovered 2022 via transit timing variations · 218 light-years away Source: NASA Exoplanet Archive Browse all 5,568 real exoplanets Learn more about exoplanets Moons
Moon 1 rings 0.40% - 2.3 radii
Inside the Roche limit (2.80 planet radii): torn apart into a ring system.
Moon 2 receding Carbon-rich 1.6% - 54.5 radii
Outside the synchronous orbit: slowly receding, like Luna (~cm per year).
+5 temperature: large moon stabilizes the axial tilt - steady seasons +4 chemistry: tidal pools cycle wet and dry - a boost for prebiotic chemistry