Star Wars: 10 Things Everyone Forgets About Tatooine
2. Two In Light, Three In Darkness
Existing in the Arkaris sector of the Outer Rim Territories, Tatooine orbits around the pair of G-Type stars named Tatoo I and Tatoo II. The proximity of the suns is what has caused its barren and arid environment. Because of the highly reflective nature of the planet’s silicate surface, Tatooine was occasionally mistaken for a third, weaker sun by early explorers. Three moons rise over Tatooine in the night sky. They are named Ghomrassen, Guermessa, and Chenini.
Because of, or perhaps in spite of, its celestial bodies, the planet of Tatooine lost its legendary lush greenery and oceans and became covered in a course, rough, silicate-based sand that erodes machinery, clogs ventilation and “gets everywhere”, to quote a young and disdainful Anakin Skywalker. However, it did attract early miners to the planet in search of riches. This “boom” didn’t last long as the ore pulled from the planet was found to have metallurgical properties that made it useless to the miners and they abandoned both their projects and equipment. The Jawas made the massive abandoned Sandcrawlers their own.
The planet boasts few natural wonders beyond its sandy surface, but a few stand-out locations are Beggar's Canyon, where a young Luke Skywalker used to shoot womp rats, the Jundland Wastes, a hilly area, dotted with caves that are frequented by the Tusken Raiders, and the Great Pit of Carkoon, the home of the Sarlacc.