Moon of Saturn
Rhea
Saturn’s second-largest moon. Cassini sniffed a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen and carbon dioxide around it.
- Diameter
- 1,528 km
- Gravity
- 0.027 g
- Orbit
- 4.5 days
- From Saturn
- 527,108 km
Can we live on Rhea?
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; a whisper-thin oxygen and CO₂ exosphere.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NASA