SpazeMoon of Saturn
Enceladus
A small, brilliant-white moon that sprays geysers of ocean water out of cracks at its south pole.
- Diameter
- 504 km
- Orbit
- 1.4 days
- Reflects
- 99% of sunlight
Can we live on Enceladus?
Air: H₂O 91%, N₂ 4%. Not breathable: you’d need a suit and your own oxygen.
Gravity: 0.01 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 1 kg there.
Ground: Bright fresh ice; plumes of ocean water from its south pole.
Atmosphere
- H₂O 91%
- N₂ 4%
- CO₂ 3.2%
- CH₄ 1.7%
Measured by Cassini (plume gases)