What On Earth Is A Super-Earth? (Video)

For starters, it’s not found on Earth but in a far away system orbiting a star. See, the Super-Earth is a category of rocky planet within a ‘habitable zone’ where proximity determines whether water deposits may or may not exist.

A super-earth is also much larger than our Earth (hence ‘super’), having heftier mass as a result, not surprising since water is oh so essential to supporting life. The picture down south? Not a Super-Earth. In case you didn’t recognize it, that’s Reach from the Halo universe before the Covenant laid waste to it. A stand in if you will.

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