Planet Tatooine Star Wars - Tatooine Star Wars - History of the planet. Real and fantastic tataouine
Tatooine is also informally called the exoplanet HD 188753 Ab in the HD 188753 system.
Location
Outer Territories, Arcanis Sector. The distance from the center of the Galaxy is 43,000 light years. A desert planet orbiting a binary star located in the outer territories far from the main galactic routes. But the planet is a good place for smugglers and gangsters of all stripes. The yellow stars around which Tatooine revolves are called Tatu I and Tatu II. The planet has 3 satellites. For centuries, Tatooine has been the site of orbital showdowns by various bandit groups, so that the surface of the planet is literally littered with the wreckage of ancient spaceships buried under the sands of the deserts. Officially, Tatooine was colonized several centuries ago, on the planet, in addition to colonists of different races and nationalities, there are also natives: the fussy and annoying Jawa people, and aggressive nomads Tuskens. Animal life is extremely diverse. The form of government is complete anarchy, only the king of the underworld, a representative of the Hutt race Jabba Hutt, has some power, but in fact Tatooine is completely independent of the Republic. and later - the Empire. There are 3 cities on the surface, as well as a huge number of farms for the extraction of moisture and the cultivation of fruits, which are called deb-deb and pica. Tatooine is the homeworld of Anakin Skywalker, the future Sith Lord Darth Vader, and home to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker's teacher. Tatooine rotates around its axis in 23 standard hours, and around the sun in 304 local days. From time to time, strong sandstorms arise on the surface of the planet, forcing all inhabitants to hide in their shelters and homes. The planet also collects a large number of racing fans who come to watch the exciting swoop races.
Story
The planet got its name "Tatooine" from the consonant name of the Jawas (one local people) - "Tah doo Een e". Tatooine is a desert planet orbiting the Outer Rim binary star near the worlds of Ryloth and Pyroket, approximately 43,000 light-years from the galactic core. Tatooine - very old world, which occupies a strategic location at the intersection of several hyperspace routes, but is far from the center of the galaxy and the Galactic Republic. However, it occupies a good place for smugglers and gangsters of all stripes. As a result, Tatooine was the site of an orbital showdown of various bandit groups, so that the surface of the planet is literally littered with the wreckage of ancient spaceships buried under the sands of the desert. The yellow stars that make up the system are called Tattoo 1 and Tattoo 2, respectively. The planet has three satellites.
So distant in the past that neither living nor electronic memory knows when it happened, Tatooine belonged to the Rakata Empire. Once upon a time there were big oceans and the world of the jungle, but as a result of the orbital bombardment of the rakat, the biosphere was destroyed. According to scientists, it was then, after global climate change, that the only intelligent species on the planet was divided into two subspecies - annoying, fussy Jawas and furious Tusken nomads, usually called sand people. The Sand People are a race of nomadic warrior tribes that reject all attempts at trade (and even simple communication) and are hostile to all outsiders. Jawas, on the other hand, are diminutive scavengers more interested in trade than combat. Their language is terribly difficult to understand, and their culture remains a mystery.
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A harsh desert planet orbiting a binary star in the Outer Worlds of the galaxy. Home of Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jabba the Hutt, Tatooine played a large role in the Galactic civil war. There are very few cities on the planet, and most of the population lives on moisture-producing farms scattered across the desert. The only spaceport, Mos Eisley is an attractive place for all sorts of criminals, smugglers and swindlers. Tatooine is full of dangers, such as sudden sandstorms, rogue Tusken raiders, or carnivorous krait dragons.
Location: in the Tatu system, in The Outer Worlds, not far from several hyperspace paths, near Ryloth and Pyroket.
Occurring species: Humans, Jawas, Tusken Raiders, Rontos, Dewbacks, Banthas, at least one Sarlack, Worrts, Womp Rats, Scariers, Crate Dragons, Sand Flies, Bone Gnawers, Dune Lizards, Sand Serpents, Rokmites, Feathered Lizards, Sand Jiggers, Myvites and rock worms.
Climate: generally extremely hot and almost unbearable. The temperature reaches over 65.5 C, except in one area where it rarely exceeds 43 C, but can drop below zero at night.
Landscape: desert with rare rocks, canyons and cliffs.
Attractions: Mos Eisley Spaceport, Jabba the Hutt's Palace, Beggar's Canyon, Dune Sea, Junland Sands, Lars Moisture Farm, Anchorhead, Torsh Station, Obi-Wan Kenobi's House, and Karkoon's Great Sinkhole.
Despite its remoteness from the center of the galaxy, Tatooine is strategically located at the intersection of several hyperspace pathways. As a result, Tatooine's orbit has often seen battles between warring factions of gangsters and smugglers, and the planet's surface is littered with the remains of ancient starships, many of which lay there for years before being found by Jawas or buried by sandstorms raging on the surface.
The native races of Tatooine are the ferocious Tusken Raiders and Jawas. The fauna is varied and includes species such as the Bantha, Dewspin, Womp Rat, Sand Fly, Bone Gnawer, Dune Raptor, Sand Snake, Rockmeat, Plumed Raptor, Sand Jigger, Meewit, Rock Worm, and the dreaded Sarlacc, said to has been digesting its victims for a thousand years. Tatooine is also home to the fearsome krait dragons, perhaps more fearsome than any other animal in the sector.
Tatooine was considered uninhabitable. However, the unusual concentration of magnetic ores in the planet's mantle, interacting with the strong magnetic field of Tatooine, changes the prevailing wind pattern and the distribution of air in the atmosphere, creating a zone of relative coolness in a small area of the planet. This temperature zone was intensively populated by people. During early colonization, people hoped to build profitable mines. When this proved impossible, many colonists established moisture farms. Water scouts can still be found roaming the desert in search of pristine clusters. groundwater. Jawas, Tusken Raiders, and other lifeforms may eat pika and deb-deb fruits that supposedly grow in some oases. The local habba gourd also occupies one of the main places in the diet of both Sandmen and Jawas. The flora is also represented by razor moss and tubular flowers. Tatooine is distinguished by high remnants, deep canyons and vast sandy seas. Where dunes meet rocky cliffs, very unusual landscapes.
Tatooine
Located directly behind Corellian Run in the Tatu system on Outer Rim galaxy, the harsh desert planet of Tatooine represents a derelict world where little development has taken place over the years, except for the illicit interests of the ruling Hutts. Tatooine has two moons and revolves around two suns. Its native inhabitants include the rampaging Tusken Riders and Jawa scavengers; but none of them are hospitable hosts, so the planet's population remains small. Only centers of intergalactic scum and criminals like Mos Eisley and Mos Espa offer any semblance of "civilization" on Tatooine.
Even though this arid planet is geographically relatively small matter, is the home planet of one of the galaxy's most infamous beings: the Jedi Anakin Skywalker, later known as the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader. Thirty-two years before the Battle of Yavin, the Royal Ship of Naboo, carrying the Queen of Naboo Padmé Amidala, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, committed emergency landing on the outskirts of Mos Espa. It was then that Qui-Gon discovered the young Anakin in a small junk shop, and his fate began to take shape.
Ten years later, Anakin returned to Tatooine and met his stepfather Cliegg Lars and half brother Owen Lars. Later, after Anakin turned to the dark side, Obi-Wan Kenobi brought Luke, Anakin's child, back to Tatooine to be raised in secret by Owen and his wife, Beru. Just before the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker came across a message from his twin sister Leia, which led Luke to Kenobi. This twist of fate began a series of events that would eventually lead to the demise of the Galactic Empire. Before the Battle of Endor, Luke returned to Tatooine to save his friend Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt. This mobster was killed while searching for Solo, and Hutt rule on Tatooine ended.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
The scenery for the cult saga of George Lucas "Star Wars" is one of the obligatory stops on the route of a two-day excursion to the Sahara. Although since the filming of the first film of the epic “Episode IV. New Hope”, for which they were built, almost 40 years have passed, the scenery is still viable and regularly brings a good income to the Tunisian treasury. In Mos Espe - that's what the place was called in the movie - you can walk the streets hometown Anakin Skywalker, touch spaceships, dress up as desert people, and brandish a Jedi sword. And, of course, take pictures in the completely realistic landscapes of the planet Tatooine.
A bit of history
Tunisia has many Star Wars filming locations that were used as locations for the Skywalkers' home planet of Tatooine. However, if you are not one of the zealous fans of the movie saga, it is enough to visit these scenery - they are the largest and easily recognizable.
By the way, the cinematic Tatooine got its name from the real Tunisian city of Tataouine - it is located a couple of hundred kilometers from the scenery.
Film Star Wars. Episode IV A New Hope "was filmed in 1977, this is the first part of the epic to appear in time. (Lucas started with episode 4 because, he said, he was itching to destroy the Death Star - which happened in this film.) Tunisia was chosen to film Tatooine - due to its proximity to Europe and the low cost of local work. The area between the Sahara and salt lake Chott el Jerid was perfect for recreating the home of the Skywalkers, a hot, dry planet orbiting the twin sun seen in the movie. There, the scenery of Mos Espa was built - a spaceport, a haven for adventurers and smugglers.
The area between the Sahara Desert and the salt lake of Chott el Jerid was perfect for recreating the home of the Skywalkers, a hot, dry planet orbiting a binary sun.
How to get there
Organized tourist groups on a trip to the Sahara. This usually happens in the early morning of the second excursion day, after stopping at Chott el Jerid and visiting the oasis at Tozeur. The location can only be reached by a four-wheel drive jeep - the road partly passes through the salt crust, partly through the dunes. For independent travel it is most convenient to rent transport in one of the Tozeur agencies.
Happy on Tatooine!
What to see
The scenery of "Star Wars" consists of about two dozen houses of a characteristic rounded shape with air ducts and other external communications. Mos Espa is located around, there are two wide streets and central square. You can enter any of the houses. Time, of course, takes its toll - the gypsum shell of the houses crumbles from the grid-base, and here and there holes gape in the buildings. The doors, however, are quite functional - so you can feel like a real inhabitant of Tatooine, looking out of the ajar sash.
On the square are models of starships and space weapons, dotted with numerous quotes from the film through the efforts of tourists. Entrepreneurial Tunisians offer to be photographed in sand people hoodies (Lucas borrowed them from the traditional Tunisian burnous clothing), try on the mantle of Darth Vader and take a formidable pose with a Jedi sword for a modest bribe of 1-2 TND.
There is no toilet at the location, which must be taken into account when calculating the time in combination with your capabilities.
Prices on the page are for September 2018.
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"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."
Tunisian city of Degesh ( degache) became our starting point for our journey to the filming location of the legendary Star Wars by George Lucas. Here we had to transfer from comfortable buses to no less comfortable all-wheel drive Toyota Land Cruiser jeeps and go on an unforgettable jeep safari across the Sahara.
Degesh is a small town of 7,000 people in a traditional North African style. Nondescript squat sandstone houses, very dusty half-empty streets and extremely sparse vegetation. There is absolutely nothing to photograph here, so I will immediately move on to the story of the jeep safari.
The first part of the Tunisian safari is a high-speed race in closed jeeps along a section of the track of the famous Dakar transcontinental rally marathon.
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Rushing through the rocky part of the Sahara - the most majestic desert on Earth - at a speed of 120-140 km / h, you involuntarily feel like the smallest grain of sand in the world, where besides you there is only an infinity of the horizon, sand and a fearless jeep driver, to whom we entrusted our lives. Extreme overtaking neighboring cars and sharp turns at high speed are sometimes really scary.
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In addition, it happens that the jeep is not weakly shaking on the unevenness of the track and you have to hold on to everything that is possible. In some places, the car does not drive along a track that has been rolled over by time, but along a road that exists exclusively in the driver’s head. Distances between jeeps can reach up to a kilometer, while the driver does not use any map or navigator.
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The second part of the safari is no less extreme than the first. The relatively flat surface of the desert ended... All sorts of hills, bumps, pits, sand dunes, etc. began.
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Without slowing down, the jeep flies up a huge hill and makes a sharp turn. The angle of inclination of the car is already close to critical, but the jeep still maintains balance. Adrenaline levels skyrocket...
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From the city of Degesh, we have already moved 30 kilometers deep into the desert. Suddenly, a huge sand dune appeared in front of us. The thought arises in my head that you can either fly over it by helicopter, or try to go around it. However, the driver has his own opinion on this matter ... The jeep accelerates, and we take off at 45 degrees on a sand dune. It is impossible to overcome the obstacle the first time, the car gets stuck in the sand and skids. It is not possible to force the barrier even from the second, third, fourth, fifth time... On the sixth or seventh time, we finally, slowly but surely, climb to the top of the dune.
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Opens from the dune beautiful panorama on desert landscapes and the main purpose of our trip - the scenery for the movie "Star Wars". A minute balancing on the crest of a dune, a shift in the center of gravity ... and now the car is almost vertically rushing down, to the screams of passengers in the cabin.
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Welcome to the planet Tatooine! Previously, I could never believe that I could visit the places where my favorite heroes of the famous fantasy saga went. Let today it's just cinematic scenery and crowds of tourists, but the feeling of unity with the place and the characters of the film is indescribable and amazing! Let me tell you how it all started...
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A long time ago, in the summer of 1976, a delegation of 130 filmmakers arrived in Tunisia, headed by director George Lucas ( George Lucas). It was this North African country with its space landscapes that was the best suited for filming the desert planet Tatooine, where Anakin Skywalker was born ( Anakin Skywalker) - the future Darth Vader ( Darth Vader). His son Luke also grew up here.
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The planet was named after the real-life city in Tunisia - Phoom-Tataouin ( Foum Tataouine), which the Tunisians call none other than Tatooine. The town is famous for its ksars - fortified clay Berber granaries. The most famous of which are Ksar Ouled Sultan ( Ksar Ouled Soltane) and Ksar Hadada ( Ksar Hadada). It was Xar Hadada that became the urban quarter of Anakin's hometown of Mos Espa ( Mos Espa) - in certain episodes of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
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The shooting of the film went on as usual until a crowd of people, incomprehensible equipment and robots near the Libyan border caused concern to the authorities. neighboring country. The film crew of Lucas was asked to urgently move away from the border deep into Tunisia ... Unfortunately, we did not get to Tatooine, and therefore we will return to the scenery of Mos Eisley ( Mos Eisley) in a desert.
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They are located 15 kilometers from the Algerian border, on the outskirts of the Chott el Garsa salt marsh ( Chott el Gharsa), in the desert between the settlements of Neft ( Naftah) and Degesh ( degache), from where we left in jeeps.
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The town was built of clay and sand in a short period of 2 months. It's been 36 years and the buildings look like new thanks to the hot climate and lack of rainfall.
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To get pictures of the scenery without tourists in the frame, I had to stand in one place for up to 15 minutes, waiting for the right moment. The presence of tourists inevitably attracts traders with all sorts of small trinkets (stone roses, bracelets, beads), where they come from neighboring settlements on motorcycles. It is sad that there is not a single memorable souvenir to be found here that would have anything to do with the Star Wars universe. The sale of souvenirs of a similar theme is a gold mine for Tunisia, but, apparently, neither the Tunisian authorities nor the corporation are interested in it. Lucasfilm. In addition, the distance of this place from residential settlements incurs certain costs for protection and maintenance.
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Some merchants offer a well-known scam for tourists in Tunisia - to be photographed with a desert fox - Fenok. And the price seems to be inexpensive - only 1 dinar. Everything would be fine, but when the paid tourist took a picture, he unexpectedly finds out what was meant by "1 dinar to each of the crowd" ... It's useless to argue ... Be careful.
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By the way, I recommend everyone who wants to visit this place to visit Tunisia in the coming years, as soon this town may disappear forever. The fact is that every year a large sand dune comes closer and closer to the scenery ... At present, it has already crept close to the walls of the outermost buildings. If no measures are taken, it may happen that in a few years the scenery will be buried under tons of sand...
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Not far from this place, on the neighboring dune, there is another memorable point - the battle site of the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn ( Qui-Gon Jinn) and the Sith Lord Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The famous cart races from the first episode were filmed nearby.
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If we talk about the remaining Star Wars filming locations in Tunisia, then the following objects can be distinguished on the list:
Sidi Bouchel Canyon ( Star Wars Canyon) with a length of 91 kilometers is located east of the city of Degesh, in the mountainous part of Tunisia (mountains Jbel Bou Helal).
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Most of Tatooine's landscape scenes were filmed here (episode IV of the saga), and there was also a mining sandcrawler, a giant caterpillar machine in which Jawas traveled across the Tatooine sands in search of lost droids. Here, the Jawas attacked Luke and the robots R2-D2 and C-3PO. //blacktroll.livejournal.com
We visited Matmata and, of course, visited one of the Berber underground dwellings, though not the Sidi Driss hotel, but still ... A separate photo report will be released about this city later.
To the west of the oasis city of Nefta is another Star Wars attraction, the lonesome Lars farm house in the middle of the desert. You can visit it by taking a local "taxi" in Neft or by renting a car.
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The most remote location for filming Star Wars was the Tunisian island of Djerba, on which the house of the old Obi-Wan Kenobi is located, and some houses served as scenery for the large tattoo city of Anchorhead.
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was released on May 25, 1977, and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace was released on May 19, 1999. The space saga consists of 6 episodes and the 7th part is currently being filmed.
Actor Mark Richard Hamill Mark Richard Hamill), better known as Luke Skywalker, once said: I didn't even have to imagine that I was on Tatooine. I really WAS on Tatooine". Well, I will join his words too.
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Additional Information:
Mos Eisley set coordinates: 33°59"39"N, 7°50"33"E
Lars home coordinates: 33°50"34"N, 7°46"44"E
Qui-Gon Jinn and Darth Maul battle coordinates: 33°59"40"N, 7°50"57"E
Coordinates of Sidi Bouchel Canyon: 34°2"16"N, 8°16"44"E
Coordinates of Luke's house (Hotel Sidi Driss): 33°32"33"N, 9°58"1"E
Mos Espa (Ksar Hadada) coordinates: 33°5"57"N, 10°18"46"E
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Another one interesting article from LJ colleagues Kharitonov which I think will be of interest to colleagues.
The second planet in the solar system is Venus. I have already told about her sad fate. Then there is our Earth. Most of the LiveJournal posts tell about its sad fate and the mouse fuss of its inhabitants. Therefore, I will tell you about the sad fate of the planet Tatooine.
It is a planet in the double star system Tatu-1-Tatu-2 of the Arcanis sector of the Outer Territories in the Dadek far far away galaxy 43,000 light years from the galactic core.
The surface of Tatooine is endless, bleak sandy seas under the light of two suns (yellow dwarfs located extremely close to each other, which allows Tatooine to have a stable orbit), occasionally interrupted by rocky canyons once carved by water. The day is unbearably hot, and the nights are cold. The air is dry and the soil is scorched. Sometimes you can observe strange fogs that appear in places where sand dunes abut against rocky cliffs.
A cursory acquaintance with Tatooine draws attention to the fact of the abundance of breathable molecular oxygen in its atmosphere, with the almost complete absence of vegetation that could produce it by photosynthesis. From the introduction to short course planetary science, we know that atomic oxygen is present in significant amounts in protoplanetary matter and is carried to the surface of planets during geological processes. However, in this case, it turns out to be associated with hydrogen in the form of water molecules, meanwhile, we do not observe any significant water bodies on Tatooine.
However, the relief of the planet bears numerous signs of traces of water erosion: this is the layered structure of the rocks, visible on the walls of the canyons, and the numerous canyons themselves, most of which are clearly not of lava origin, as well as the ferruginous sandstones and limestones that make up the rocks, and salt marshes in deserts. In addition, the autochthonous fauna of the planet, from banthas and dragon kraits to mind carriers - jawas and tuskens, bears only signs of successful adaptations to the arid climate, but such higher forms could not have evolved under the modern conditions of the planet. In the distant past, this planet was a much wetter world.
Some apocrypha claim that the planet acquired its current desert appearance as a result of nuclear bombardments of the surface by the forces of the Rakata Empire, however, such statements should be treated with great caution: the known consequences of the influence of nuclear bombardments on the general planetary climate differ significantly from the picture observed on Tatooine. However, the source of the phrase about nuclear bombings, we must give him his due, indicates that "neither living nor electronic memory knows when it happened" and whether it happened at all.
It is more likely that in the case of Tatooine, we are dealing with a planet similar in most respects to Earth, but with a longer geological history and currently exhausted (or almost exhausted) hydrogen reserves in the bowels.
The main source of oxygen on Earth is not photosynthesis, as is commonly believed, but the dissociation of water molecules under the influence of solar radiation. Earth's gravity is sufficient to hold an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, but light gases - hydrogen and helium - escape from our atmosphere into space, form a corona around the Earth and are "blown" away by the solar wind. The time for hydrogen to completely escape from the Earth's atmosphere is only a few years, and the time of complete volatilization of helium is several million years, but in the earth's atmosphere, hydrogen and helium are constantly renewed due to receipt from the earth's interior.
However, the reserves of hydrogen in the depths are not infinite. On Tatooine, for example, they have ended or are coming to an end. The oceans gradually dissociated, hydrogen escaped, and oxygen remained in the atmosphere. The question arises - why is it still not completely breathed by all sorts of Hutts and other sibulbs?
The fact is that Tatooine also has another feature that the apocrypha mentions - an unstable magnetic field and huge concentrations of magnetic ores. These phenomena are interconnected - a single, global magnetic field of Tatooine, caused by the dynamo effect of the core, disappeared with the final decomposition of metal hydrides in the depths. The same magnetic anomalies that are observed at the moment are caused by residual magnetism. rocks planets - hence the uneven magnetic field. So, thanks to this defective magnetic field, the “two-solar wind” sometimes reaches the surface of the planet, and, like on Mercury, destroys the molecules of the minerals of the crust. Let me remind you that, for example, the earth's crust consists mainly of compounds of iron, silicon and magnesium with oxygen - we have about 30% of it there, on Tatooine (taking into account the "liberated" oxygen of the oceans and its longer removal from the bowels of the planet) its content in surface should be even more. However, an excess of oxygen in the atmosphere of this desert world is still not observed - the fact is that this world, unlike the Earth, is the planet closest to the luminaries in the system - the relative oxygen content in the planet's substance was initially lower.
Less on Tatooine and carbon - and this was his salvation: the amount of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere is negligible, and this allowed it, when the oceans disappeared due to the greenhouse effect, not to turn into a likeness of our Venus. Nevertheless, most of Tatooine is unsuitable for the life of humanoids precisely because of the high temperatures (and, obviously, hard radiation). Atmospheric currents create a zone of relative coolness in a small area of the planet. This temperate zone, two hundred kilometers in diameter, from Mos Eisley to Bestin, where temperatures rarely exceed 43 ° C, was inhabited.
