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Asked by thedonishscienceexperiment115 to Amy, Karen, Sarah, Vijay, Will on 18 Jun 2012.
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Will Reynolds answered on 18 Jun 2012:
This depends on where they are in their orbits. At some points earth will be closer to mars than others because their orbits are not aligned. The closest it has been was in 2003 when it was ONLY 54 million km which would take about 214 days (5136 hours). The distance from mars to saturn would then be 1200 million km which would be 11 years and 76 days (approximately!) which is 98,184 hours and back which would be shorter if you dont stop on mars again but still the best part of 100, 000 hours. Of course all this depends on the speed you travel at and whether you go the direct route! Let me know how it goes!
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Karen Reed answered on 18 Jun 2012:
Hiya,
great question- I’ve not the foggiest idea but happy to take Wills word for it that he’s found out the facts for you. I could google and look it up as well but I trust Will. \it would obviously depend on what speed this vehicle could travel. The space shuttle can travel at 4973 km / hr – so to go 1254 million miles (will’s numbers) would take about 252161 hours I think – so Will must have used a super fast vehicle 🙂
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Sarah Martin answered on 18 Jun 2012:
Hi thedonishscienceexperiment115!
The Curiosity Mars mission is currently under way from Earth to Mars – it’ll take about 36 weeks, or 254 days, or 6096 hours. The distance depends on the time of year, and how close Mars is to Earth, as these distances change as planets orbit the sun at different speeds from 50 to 250 million miles. You can check where Curiosity is at the moment with views of Mars and Earth!
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/whereistherovernow/Saturn is much further away than Mars, with distances over 1 billion miles (varying between 1,195,772,020 and 1,658,854,980!), so it would take about ten times as long.
So, alltogether you’re looking at about 130,000 hours.
Will you be going?
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