- weight
- 0.01 g
- sun
- 0.10× as wide
- sky
- warm white
Illustration computed from this world’s measured and derived values, not a photograph.
Enceladus
Enceladus is a rocky world in our own solar system.
Standing on Enceladus, you would weigh about 99% less than you do on Earth. From here the Sun looks 0.10× as wide as it does from Earth, bathing the surface in warm white light. A year here lasts 29.4 Earth years, and at a measured -198°C (-325°F) it is colder than almost anywhere in the solar system.
How closely this world matches Earth in size and warmth, from 0 to 1 (Earth = 1.0). Computed by gravityfinder. See every world ranked →
What these mean: surface gravity · tidal locking · equilibrium temperature · Earth similarity
If your children grew up herea playful thought experiment
Barely any weight to fight, at 0.01 times Earth's gravity. A child who grew up here could grow remarkably tall and willowy, about 2.2x taller than on Earth: a 5 ft 10 in adult could stand nearer 12 ft 10 in, with long thin limbs and delicate bones that never had to bear much load.
- Bones
- Light and slender
- With little weight to carry, the growing skeleton lays down far less bone, the way astronauts' bones thin in months of low gravity.
- Heart
- Unhurried
- With less weight pulling blood down toward the feet, the heart has far less work to do.
- Movement
- Bounding and springy
- So little weight means each step would carry the body up and forward in long, floating strides.
A playful thought experiment from this world’s gravity, not a prediction about any real person. No human has ever grown up off Earth, so no one truly knows; the direction (taller in low gravity, shorter and stockier in high) follows how growing bodies respond to weight.
Hear how a voice sounds herea computed acoustic demoEXPERIMENTAL · just for fun
You would hear nothing at all.
With essentially no atmosphere, there is no medium to carry sound. You could shout into someone's helmet from an inch away and they would hear nothing: space is silent.
- !Around -200°C on fresh, bright ice that reflects nearly all the sunlight that reaches it.
- Geysers at the south pole spray water from a hidden ocean out into space.
- !No air to breathe, and gravity about 1% of Earth's.
A playful read of Enceladus’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.
Enceladus is in our own solar system. It orbits about 9.54 AU from the Sun, so sunlight reaches it in roughly 79 minutes. From Earth it is about 8.54 AU away at closest, and a spacecraft is far slower:
How long to get there with today’s craftCALCULATED
At the speed of the Parker Solar Probe, the fastest craft ever built, the trip to Enceladus would take about 77 days; a real mission took the Cassini probe almost 7 years to reach Saturn's neighborhood.
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What is the gravity on Enceladus?
Enceladus's surface gravity is about 0.01 times Earth's.
How much would you weigh on Enceladus?
Someone who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh about 2 pounds on Enceladus.
How hot is Enceladus?
Enceladus's measured mean surface temperature is about -198°C (-325°F).
How long is a year on Enceladus?
Enceladus completes one orbit of the Sun in 29.4 years.
The portrait of Enceladus is a real photograph (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, Public domain). The "stand here" scene and the size comparison are computed illustrations, not photographs.