Moon of Jupiter
Callisto
The most heavily cratered surface we know of. It has barely changed in four billion years.
- Diameter
- 4,821 km
- Gravity
- 0.13 g
- Orbit
- 16.7 days
Can we live on Callisto?
Air: only a faint trace of CO₂, O₂, far too thin to breathe. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.13 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 9 kg there.
Ground: Dark ice and rock, cratered all over.
Atmosphere
- CO₂
- O₂
Measured by Galileo