How Far Is Mars From The Sun?

[Binary_Bark]

How Far Is Mars From The Sun?

Mars orbits the Sun at an average distance (semi-major axis) of 228 million km (141.67 million mi), or 1.524 astronomical units (over one and a half times the distance between Earth and the Sun). However, Mars also has the second most eccentric orbit of all the planets in the Solar System (0.0934), which makes it a distant second to crazy Mercury (at 0.20563).

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

Depends.

 

[Pilgrim]

Here is an interesting site: http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/sched.html

Basicly a schedule of when to depart Earth to reach Mercury, Venus, Mars or Jupiter in the shortest time possible.

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Use Bode's Law when doing back-of-the-envelope calculations.

It's close enough.