Umbriel

Moon

The darkest of Uranus's major moons, heavily cratered and ancient.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsUranus
Distance from parent body266,000 km
Diameter1,169 km
Mass1.27 × 10^21 kg
Surface gravity0.249 m/s²
Temperature-213°C
Orbital period4 days
Apparent magnitude15.1
Redshift0
Discovered1851

Umbriel in context

At 1,169 km across, Umbriel is 34 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.

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

It orbits Uranus at 266,000 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.

A single orbit takes 4.1 days.

An average temperature of 60 K works out at -213 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

It has been on record since 1851.

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