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This would depend on the relative locations of Earth and Mars, as well as the spaceship used to travel there. In the past, the typical length of travel of the various probes sent to Mars has ranged between 150 and 300 or so days. For example, in 1976, Viking 1 took 335 days to reach Mars; and in 2012, Curiosity Lander reached Mars in 253 days.

One of the latest developments in space travel technology has been the VASIMR rocket, which could potentially reduce the length of travel significantly - perhaps as little as 39 days. However, until a full-sized model of this rocket is successfully built and launched - or something else is developed that matches VASIMR's predicted speed - the time required to travel to the red planet will be in the area of 150-300 days.

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