It only takes a few minutes to get to space! Rockets hit the boundary of space, approximately 100 km above Earth, in around 8 ...

Orbit around the Sun: It takes 687 Earth days for the Red Planet to go around the Sun one time. Rotation: Mars spins on its axis at about the same speed as Earth does.

The distance to Mars from Earth constantly changes as they orbit the sun. The average distance between Earth and Mars is 140 million miles (225 million km).

At a distance of 1,547 kilometers (961 miles) from Mars, the spacecraft is readied for the engine firing that will brake its approach speed and allow Odyssey to be captured into Mars’ orbit.

And, critically, crews would be able to control surface robotics and communicate with human explorers on surface missions nearly instantaneously, instead of dealing with an Earth-Mars lag time ...

Then, it will be time to maneuver Hope into the science orbit, which will allow the probe’s instruments to begin capturing scientific data of Mars. Hope will complete one scientific orbit of the ...

Then there are two on the orbit, preceding at 60° (that’s L 4), and following also at 60° (that’s L 5). Earth has only two known trojans but it is difficult to study them. Mars has 17, most ...

In arriving at Mars, China far surpassed its last attempt at an interplanetary mission, which failed nearly 10 years ago, although through no fault of the country’s own.