Science Art: Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth, NASA/JPL Exoplanet Travel Bureau

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Apparently, since last December at least, NASA has been creating vintage-style travel posters for exoplanets – the planets we’ve been discovering around faraway stars.

This one, HD 40307g, is eight times Earth’s mass, and might be either a really large rocky planet (like Earth) or a really small ice giant (like Neptune).

Either way, base jumping would definitely be different there.

There are quite a few other potential destinations at the Exoplanet Travel Bureau, all of which have their own unique charms.