I've seen it with a telescope. It has rings.
Considering the empirical evidence available, there is nothing to say that it isn't how far astronomy says it is. Which is between 750 million and 1.4 billion miles depending on the time of year for both planets respectively.
Anyways RE'rs just let scepti believe what he wants. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things and we have to know by now that he doesn't care about empiricism. Cheers scepti.