Huygen - Galileo88/JNSQ GitHub Wiki
With thick, hazy atmosphere and distinct amber sheen, Huygen has kept astronomers thinking hard, and somewhat scared, for the annoyingly short time scale by which they've been aware of it. Whether this moon is as hostile as Eve or deceptively quite approachable waits to be confirmed.
Huygen is JNSQ's "Titan" analog, named after Titan's real life discoverer, Christiaan Huygens. It should come as no surprise that Huygen is home to ample reservoirs of methane just waiting for extraction.
Rational Resources Classification:
Ocean | Surface | Atmosphere | Exosphere |
---|---|---|---|
Methane | Ice-Methane | Ice-Methane | None |
From the PDF included in the download:
Bulk Params | Orbital and Rotational Params | ||
---|---|---|---|
Classification | Moon (Lindor) | Semi-major Axis | 187,500 km |
Radius | 670 km sea level, 670.9 km mean | Periapsis | 182,813 km |
Mass | 9.89396×1021 kg | Apoapsis | 192,188 km |
Gravitational Parameter | 6.60331×1011 m3/s2 | Orbit eccentricity | 0.025 |
Mean density | 7,820 kg/m3 | Orbit inclination | 0.75° |
Surface gravity | 0.15 g ASL | Longitude of ascending node | 150° |
Escape velocity | 1,404 m/s | Argument of periapsis | 60° |
Bond Albedo | 0.3 | Sidereal orbit period | 15.374 days |
Solar irradiance | 14.8 W/m2 | Synodic period | 15.396 days |
Black-body temperature | 82 K | Mean orbital velocity | 1,774 m/s |
Sidereal rotation period | 15.374 days | ||
Solar day | 15.396 days | ||
Synchronous orbit altitude | N/A | ||
Sphere of influence | 12,376 km |
Atmosphere | |
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Overall height | 180 km |
Pressure | 1.5 atm sea level |
Mean temperature | 91 K sea level |
Mean molecular weight | 27.5 g/mol |
Composition | 96% N2, 4% CH4 |