Copernicus II

Tundra
No survey data available. This world remains unexplored.
Copernicus II lives up to its namesake's spirit of humbling revelation—a frozen world of staggering beauty, where methane ice cliffs catch starlight like cathedral glass and winds howl across plains that haven't seen a footprint in millennia. The atmospheric readings suggest a stable methane cycle, and I found myself standing at the rim of what might be an ancient impact crater, genuinely moved by the thought of how many cosmic collisions shaped this austere landscape. It reminds me of the tundra surveys near Kepler's Rest, though this one has an almost austere majesty—no signs of life, no ruins, just ice and wind and the patient work of geology. Worth a return trip, perhaps with a better cold-weather kit.
— Captain Vex Moreau, Explorer's Guild Field Journal
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Radius 6351 km
Mass 0.97 M⊕
Surface Gravity 0.85 g
Temperature 206 K (-68°C)
Atmosphere 0.587 atm — Thin N2/CO2
Day Length 35.3 hours
Orbital Period 2.9 years
Orbital Distance 2.02 AU