(February 18, 2021 at 4:05 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 18, 2021 at 4:01 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: 3.03 minutes
Therefore, a light shining from the surface of Mars would take the following amount of time to reach Earth (or vice versa): Closest possible approach: 182 seconds, or 3.03 minutes. Closest recorded approach: 187 seconds, or 3.11 minutes. Farthest approach: 1,342 seconds, or 22.4 minutes.Nov 14, 2017
How Long Does It Take to Get to Mars? | Space
https://www.space.com/24701-how-long-doe...%20minutes
WOW! That is f-ing fast. I was just watching the news and they were saying Mars has a 40 minute longer day than earth. I find it amazing that they have to work out all that math to time everything down to the second to land that thing. They were reporting too, that the mission will have it land in an ancient riverbed in an attempt to try to find signs of prior life.
Landing a machine on Mars safely has been compared - not unreasonably - to shooting a bird in flight when you can't see the bird and all you have to go on are reports about where it was the last time someone looked at it.
Boru
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