Visit my website at http://www.junglejoel.com - this animation depicts the Kepler mission's smallest known habitable world. Kepler-62f is a super-Earth-sized planet located squarely in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler than the sun. This star system is located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra.
The Kepler-62 star system is home to two habitable zone worlds, Kepler-62f and Kepler-62e. Orbiting on the inner edge of the habitable zone, Kepler-62e is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth.
Kepler-62f orbits it's host star every 267 days and is roughly 40 percent larger than Earth in size. While the size of this exoplanet is known, its mass and composition are not - though using previous exoplanet discoveries of similar size that are rocky, scientists are able to determine its mass by association.
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