Jan 15, 2010 · Exoplanet CoRoT-7b is weird world, with rock rains, super-volcanoes, evaporating surface.

Mar 28, 2025 · CoRoT-7 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 4.07661 Earths, it takes 0.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.017016 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2009.

Jun 6, 2013 · This artist’s impression shows sunrise over CoRoT-7b, the smallest-known exoplanet. The world is about 70 percent larger than Earth. Now, a team led by Brian Jackson at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center finds that the planet may be the rocky remains of a gas giant planet whose atmosphere was evaporated by close proximity to the star.

Oct 2, 2009 · To find out what COROT-7b's atmosphere might be like, Fegleyand his colleagues modeled it. They found that COROT-7b's atmosphere is made upof the ingredients of rocks and when "a front moves...

Found in February 2009 by ESA's planet-hunting COROT spacecraft, COROT-7b is five times heavier than Earth and has approximately the same density, so it must be made of rock and metal, like ours. However, it orbits so close to its star that it is likely covered with a lava ocean.

CoRoT-7b: The Planet Where Rock Melts Like WaterCoRoT-7b orbits its star in just 20 hours, creating a fiery world where rock flows like rivers of lava. With ...

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Meet Meet Cora 7b a planet where it constantly rains rocks Back in 2019 when Cora b was first discovered the scientists considered it the first rocky exoplan...

Mar 9, 2023 · CoRoT-7b is the first terrestrial planet discovered in 2009 by ESA’s Corot mission. But CoRoT-7b is nothing like Earth. Its oceans are made of lava, and even though the planet is only 50 percent bigger than Earth, it is six times as heavy.