Natural Satellite
Rhea
Rhea is currently about 1,293,479,505 kilometres from Earth, or 8.646 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 71.9 minutes out. It is 9.444 astronomical units from the Sun.
Saturn’s second-largest moon, a heavily cratered ball of ice and rock that may once have had a faint ring of its own.
The only moon where a ring system has ever been suspected.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 1,293,479,505 km (8.646 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 1,412,759,551 km (9.444 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 71.9 minutes
The body
- Mean radius
- 764 km
- Orbital radius
- 527,108 km
- Orbital period
- 4.52 days