Distance to Mars

[Ian]

Does anybody know far Saturn's Moon Titan is from the Earth right now or a website that would tell me how far it is right now in miles?

[Ladewig]

In January, the distance was 759 million (http://www.ccm.edu/planetarium/ds/dsu_200501.htm#planet) miles (about 70 light-minutes away). Right now I estimate it around 790 million miles.

Question 1. why do you want to know?

Question 2. why did you title the thread "distance to Mars"?

[Ladewig]

This NASA (http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/) site allows you to see what Saturn would currently look like from Titan (and vice-a-versa) as well as what any of the planets would look like from any of NASA's space probes.

[Ian]

I just wanted to know how long it would take for a radio signal to travel from Titan to the Earth. I accidentally named the subject Distance to Mars.

[Wolverine]

At the time of this posting, Titan is about 9.7466 AU from Earth, approximately 1,458,071,866.8 km. It would take about 81 minutes for a signal to reach Earth directly at that distance.

Just to note, during the Huygens descent in January, Earth and Saturn (and Titan, of course) were closer to one another. Huygens transmitted its data from the surface to Cassini, which relayed it to Earth. At that time the transmission from Cassini's position took about 67 minutes to get here.

Edit: Whoops :o , missed the request for expression in miles in the OP. Translates to a bit over 906,000,000 miles at present.