SpazeMoon of Uranus
Ariel
The brightest of Uranus’s big moons, crossed by long valleys that may once have flowed with icy lava.
- Diameter
- 1,158 km
- Gravity
- 0.027 g
- Orbit
- 2.5 days
- From Uranus
- 190,900 km
Can we live on Ariel?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.03 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 2 kg there.
Ground: Water ice with carbon dioxide ice.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NASA