Observatory Plateau
AridA dry, thin-atmosphered world ideal for ground-based astronomy. Telescope arrays cover the equatorial highlands. The Epsilon Initiative operates its primary data center here.
The Epsilon Initiative's Observatory Plateau lives up to its name—those telescope arrays stretching across the equatorial highlands are genuinely impressive, and the thin atmosphere makes for the clearest stellar viewing I've encountered since the Kepler Station observations a decade back. I had to smile at the irony: humanity builds its grandest eye to the cosmos on one of the most inhospitable patches of rock in Sirius, yet somehow the isolation only sharpens the focus. The data center humming beneath those dunes will keep a thousand astronomers fed for years, cataloging whatever wonders the universe decides to reveal.
— Captain Vex Moreau, Explorer's Guild Field Journal
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Physical Properties
Radius
3389 km
Mass
0.13 M⊕
Surface Gravity
0.39 g
Temperature
238 K (-36°C)
Atmosphere
0.0060 atm — Thin CO2
Day Length
25.5 hours
Orbital Period
2.9 years
Orbital Distance
2.02 AU