SpazeDwarf planet, Kuiper belt
Pluto
New Horizons flew past in 2015 and found a heart-shaped glacier of nitrogen ice the size of Texas.
- Diameter
- 2,377 km
- Gravity
- 0.06 g
- Day
- 6.4 Earth days
- Year
- 248 Earth years
- Surface
- −229 °C
- Moons
- 5
Can we live on Pluto?
Air: N₂ 99%, CH₄ 0.25%. Not breathable: you’d need a suit and your own oxygen.
Gravity: 0.06 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 4 kg there.
Ground: Nitrogen-ice glacier (the heart), water-ice mountains, red tholins.
Atmosphere
- N₂ 99%
- CH₄ 0.25%
- CO <0.1%
Measured by New Horizons