Moon of Saturn
Hyperion
A sponge-like moon that tumbles chaotically: its spin can’t be predicted from one orbit to the next.
- Diameter
- 270 km
- Gravity
- 0.002 g
- Orbit
- 21.3 days
- From Saturn
- 1,481,010 km
Can we live on Hyperion?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.00 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 0 kg there.
Ground: Porous water ice, like a sponge.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NASA