It took the Curiosity Lander 253 days to get to Mars and the distance between Earth and Mars at their closest point is about 33,926,867 miles. Do the math correctly and the speed at which Curiosity was traveling was about 5,587 mph.
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The full name of the Curiosity rover is the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover.
Curiosity rover
The Mars buggy started exploring the red planet, Mars, on July 6, 1997. The buggy was name Sojourner and has explored Mars for three months.
Curiosity took about 8.5 months to travel from Earth to Mars. It launched on November 26, 2011, and landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.
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Curiosity traveled at a speed of about 13,000 miles per hour (21,000 kilometers per hour) during its journey to Mars.
It took Curiosity 253 days to land on the planet Mars
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When people can make their rocket as fast as light, then they can go to the Mars.
352 Million Miles and it took 81/2 months
An approximation: it went 350,000,000 miles in about 8 months or 240 days, and 24 hrs in an earth day, so it must have been traveling at about 64,000 miles/hr.
The orbital speed of mars averages at around 24.077 km/s.
Curiosity was launched to Mars on November 26, 2011, at 10:02AM.
Radio waves travel "at the speed of light" which, though very fast, is still a finite speed. Mars is far away so it takes 7 minutes for the radio waves to travel the distance from Curiosity to the Mars orbiter that then relays radio communications to Earth. How much delay in the electronics of the relay station in the orbiter and the electronics on Earth I cannot be certain, but certainly a measurable amount though probably less than a few seconds.