Atlas

Moon

A tiny moon with a smooth equatorial ridge of accumulated ring material that gives it a flying saucer shape.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsSaturn
Distance from parent body137,670 km
Diameter30 km
Mass5.54 × 10^15 kg
Surface gravity1.62e-3 m/s²
Temperature-195°C
Orbital period1 days
Apparent magnitude19
Redshift0

Atlas in context

At 30 km across, Atlas is 0.9 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.

Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.

It orbits Saturn at 137,670 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.

A single orbit takes 14.4 hours.

An average temperature of 78 K works out at -195 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

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