Natural Satellite
Dione
Dione is currently about 1,293,307,617 kilometres from Earth, or 8.645 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 71.9 minutes out. It is 9.443 astronomical units from the Sun.
An icy moon laced with bright wispy cliffs of fractured ice, and a faint hint of a tenuous oxygen exosphere.
May hide a liquid ocean deep beneath its icy crust.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 1,293,307,617 km (8.645 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 1,412,608,645 km (9.443 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 71.9 minutes
The body
- Mean radius
- 561 km
- Orbital radius
- 377,396 km
- Orbital period
- 2.74 days