• Question: how many hours and minutes does it take to get to mars

    Asked by Nayeemul000 to Maheen, Rob, Deborah, Euan, Stu on 13 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by s wizard, CRAZYscientistnaithan123, TylerWilliams, science beast.
    • Photo: Maheen Siddiqui

      Maheen Siddiqui answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      According to NASA, 6 months to get there and 6 months to get back!

    • Photo: Rob Stanley

      Rob Stanley answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      As Maheen said, it takes months to get there not hours! (Even getting to the moon takes about 3 days.)

      But the time it takes to get to Mars changes, because we’re both orbiting the sun. If Mars is on the other side of the sun from us it will take much longer than if it is on the same side as us. So NASA will only launch a mission to mars when it is close enough!

    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      As Maheen and Rob say, a very long time. It’ll also depend on how fast you could travel. As better technologies for traveling in space are created the time will be shortened, but its still a very big distance to travel.

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