SpazeMoon of Saturn
Iapetus
Half coal-black, half snow-white, with a mountain ridge running along its equator like the seam of a walnut.
- Diameter
- 1,469 km
- Gravity
- 0.023 g
- Orbit
- 79.3 days
- From Saturn
- 3,560,820 km
Can we live on Iapetus?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.02 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 2 kg there.
Ground: Water ice, one hemisphere coated in dark reddish dust.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NASA