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Enceladus
Moon · Natural satellite orbiting Saturn
About Enceladus
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Enceladus was 9.52 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 79.2 minutes to reach it.
It goes round its planet once every 1.37 days, 238,411 km away on average.
It is about 504.2 km across.
The map lists it as a moon and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Orbit radius (semi-major axis) | 238,411 km |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 1.37 days |
| Eccentricity | 0.0050 |
| Inclination | 28.05° |
| Radius | 252.1 km |
| Distance from the Sun | 9.52 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Saturn › Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn and the 18th largest in the Solar System. It is about 500 kilometres in diameter, about a tenth of that of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It is covered by clean, freshly deposited snow hundreds of meters thick, making it one of the most reflective bodies of the Solar System.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Enceladus, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.