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by manojlds 3389 days ago
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Jupiter is 5.2 times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Thanks to the inverse square law, it gets 3.7% of the sunlight that Earth does. You won't be growing any plants there, and solar electric is going to be terrible.

Saturn, which Titan orbits, is 9.6 times farther, and receives 1% of the sunlight that Earth receives.

Mars is much better at 1.5 times farther, and receiving 44% of the sunlight that Earth does.

Also, Titan averages -179C compared to Mars' range from -125C up to 20C.

Go other way to Mercury and one has virtually limitless energy. The polar craters contain ice and a thermal reservoir.
Still very far away from the Sun, but closer.