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Eyeball planet

An eyeball planet is a hypothetical type of tidally locked planet, for which tidal locking induces spatial features resembling an eyeball. They are terrestrial planets where liquids may be present, in which tidal locking will induce a spatially dependent temperature gradient. This temperature gradient may therefore limit the places in which liquid may exist on the surface of the planet to ring- or disk-shaped areas.

Potential candidates
Kepler-1652b is potentially an eyeball planet. The TRAPPIST-1 system may contain several such planets. According to the observations of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2024, the super-Earth planet LHS 1140b might either have a thin ice shell with a subsurface ocean or an icy surface covered partially in liquid water, the latter of which is an attribute of "cold" eyeball planet. == See also ==
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