Moon
A small icy moon that sprays plumes of water vapor from its south pole.
| Type | Moon |
|---|---|
| Orbits | Saturn |
| Distance from parent body | 238,020 km |
| Diameter | 504 km |
| Mass | 1.08 × 10^20 kg |
| Surface gravity | 0.113 m/s² |
| Temperature | -198°C |
| Orbital period | 1 days |
| Apparent magnitude | 11.7 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 1789 |
At 504 km across, Enceladus is 15 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.
Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.
It orbits Saturn at 238,020 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.
A single orbit takes 1.4 days.
An average temperature of 75 K works out at -198 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
It has been on record since 1789.
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