Natural Satellite

Titan

Titan is currently about 1,292,805,981 kilometres from Earth, or 8.642 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 71.9 minutes out. It is 9.439 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
1,292,805,981 km (8.642 AU)
Distance from the Sun
1,412,062,003 km (9.439 AU)
One-way signal time
71.9 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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