SpazeMoon of Pluto
Charon
Half Pluto’s size, so the two orbit a point between them. Its red north pole, Mordor Macula, is frost stolen from Pluto’s air.
- Diameter
- 1,212 km
- Gravity
- 0.029 g
- Orbit
- 6.4 days
- From Pluto
- 19,591 km
Can we live on Charon?
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 and ammonia, with a reddish north pole.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NASA