Hoth - wikipedia Hoth This article is about the fictional planet. For other uses, see Hoth ( disambiguation ). Hoth Hoth and its three natural satellites in The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars location Created by George Lucas Genre Science fiction Type Ice planet First appearance The Empire Strikes Back Moon ( s ) Hoth is an ice planet in the Star Wars fictional universe. It first appeared in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back and has also been a setting in Star Wars books and video games. Contents 1 Description 2 Fictional appearance 3 Portrayal in film 4 Scientific accuracy 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Description Hoth is the sixth planet of a remote system of the same name, with three uninhabited moons. It is a small, terrestrial planet blanketed by snow and ice. The freezing climate, although habitable, is too cold for intelligent life to develop. Hoth is home to only a few species, including the towering, predatory Wampa and the gray snow - lizards known as Tauntauns. Both appear in The Empire Strikes Back. Hoth is close to the Hothian asteroid belt ; many meteorites pelt the planet 's surface, making temporary craters in its ever - moving snow drifts. Fictional appearance In the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, Hoth is the home of the Rebel Alliance 's secret base. The Rebels patrol the planet by riding indigenous tauntauns. At the start of the film, Luke Skywalker and his tauntaun are attacked by a wampa. Skywalker eventually escapes and is rescued by Han Solo. When one of the Galactic Empire 's probe droids uncovers the base, the Rebels are forced to evacuate. The Empire arrives and deploys ground forces to destroy the base, but the Rebels battle the AT - ATs with ground artillery and snowspeeders to stall them and effectively evacuate. Hoth has also appeared in Star Wars books and video games. In the novel Darksaber ( 1995 ), Luke Skywalker and his lover Callista travel to Hoth, where they encounter the same Wampa that attacked Luke in Empire, but he swiftly kills it. In Shadows of the Empire, Hoth is one of several settings for Dash Rendar 's adventures. Portrayal in film The original draft of The Empire Strikes Back, written by Leigh Brackett, depicted an opening scene with Luke Skywalker on the ridge of an ice planet, though the name `` Hoth '' was given to the cloud planet at the time. ( The cloud planet was ultimately called Bespin. ) The draft also depicted Hoth 's wampas attacking the rebel base. The Hardangerjøkulen glacier near Finse, Norway served as the filming location for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. Scenes were filmed in subzero temperatures. For the battle scene, miniatures were used on a set that used microscopic glass bubbles and baking soda to mimic the snowy territory. Scientific accuracy The planetary attributes of the fictional planet Hoth have been scrutinized for scientific accuracy. Space.com said Hoth most resembled the extrasolar planet OGLE - 2006 - BLG - 390, `` With a surface temperature of - 364 degrees Fahrenheit ( - 220 degrees Celsius ), it is nearly as frigid as Pluto. '' Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society said the asteroid belt near Hoth meant that the planet would have difficulty staying in place. With Hoth being bombarded frequently by asteroids, Betts said it would be unlikely for natural lifeforms ( like the wampa and the tauntaun shown in the film ) to evolve on the planet. Jeanne Cavelos theorized in The Science of Star Wars that the frequency of meteoroids bombarding Hoth indicated that the planet was relatively young since in older solar systems, the debris is more cleared out. Since Hoth has complex lifeforms, Cavolos said the planet 's age may be older, in the range of several billion years. The author said Hoth could be similar to Earth in age but lack neighboring planets like Jupiter and Saturn to shelter it from meteoroid impacts. She also said with the asteroid belt depicted in the film as close to Hoth that the belt was a likely source for meteoroids. ( The asteroid belt itself is unrealistically depicted as being closely clustered, which would normally mean that the asteroids would be reduced to sand - sized rubble over a long enough timespan. ) CJ Miozzi, writing for The Escapist, said that Hoth was realistic as a single - biome planet ( among numerous such planets in Star Wars ), citing Jupiter 's moon Europa as a similar example. Miozzi said the planet was depicted in the Star Wars books as being geologically active and having additional smaller lifeforms, including lichen. The author said lichen on Earth was an important part of the food chain during winter months but that it could grow back outside these months. With Hoth perpetually iced over, Miozzi said lichen likely would not be sufficient to support a multi-tiered food chain that includes an apex predator, the wampa. See also List of Star Wars planets and moons References Jump up ^ Kershner, Irvin ( Director ) ( May 21, 1980 ). The Empire Strikes Back ( Motion picture ). 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm. General Veers : Com - Scan has detected an energy field protecting an area of the sixth planet of the Hoth system. Jump up ^ Pirrello, Phil ; Moro, Eric ; Collura, Scott ( May 21, 2010 ). `` 100 Things You Did n't Know About The Empire Strikes Back ''. IGN. Retrieved November 21, 2014. Jump up ^ Hill, Amelia. `` Star Wars Planet Profiles : Hoth ''. About.com. Retrieved November 21, 2014. Jump up ^ Chao, Tom ( September 14, 2012 ). `` 10 Real Alien Worlds That Resemble ' Star Wars ' Planets ''. Retrieved November 21, 2014. Jump up ^ Staff ( October 28, 2010 ). `` The Worlds of Star Wars : Hoth ''. National Geographic. Retrieved November 21, 2014. Jump up ^ Cavelos, Jeanne ( 2007 ). The Science of Star Wars. Macmillan. pp. 14 -- 17. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4299 - 7176 - 8. Jump up ^ Miozzi, CJ ( March 27, 2014 ). `` Star Wars Canon : Just How Realistic Are the Single - Biome Planets ? ''. The Escapist. Retrieved November 21, 2014. 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Question: where did they film the battle of hoth
Answer: The Hardangerjøkulen glacier near Finse, Norway