Natural Satellite

Titan

Titan is currently about 1,263,195,685 kilometres from Earth, or 8.444 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 70.2 minutes out. It is 9.434 astronomical units from the Sun.

Highlighting Titan's Hazes
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, Public domain (NASA). Source.

Saturn’s giant moon, larger than Mercury, shrouded in a thick orange atmosphere with lakes and rivers of liquid methane.

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft is slated to launch for Titan in 2028.

Right now

Distance from Earth
1,263,195,685 km (8.444 AU)
Distance from the Sun
1,411,296,588 km (9.434 AU)
One-way signal time
70.2 minutes

The body

Mean radius
2,575 km
Orbital radius
1,221,870 km
Orbital period
16 days
Titan on the live map, in its real position. Drag to look around, or open the full map.

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