If cars can fly how long would it take to get to mars?

Answer 1

Just like any other trip, the time it takes depends on how long the trip is,

what route you take, and how fast you travel.

-- At different times of year and in different years, the straight-line distance between

the Earth and Mars can be anywhere from 35.4 million to 247.9 million miles.

Let's say you make the trip when they're as close together as they can ever be

-- Real spacecraft never travel in straight lines, but let's say you could ... so you only

have to drive 35.4 million miles.

-- If there's no traffic and you drive at the speed of light, it only takes you

a little over 3 minutes to get to Mars.

-- If you hold it down and only drive 1 million miles per hour, then it takes you

35.4 hours ... about a day and a half.

-- If your passenger in the front seat is afraid of high speeds and won't let you drive

more than a thousand miles an hour, it takes you about 4 years to get there.

-- If Mars is halfway around its orbit, 247.9 million miles from us on the other side

of the sun, and you head over there at normal highway speed of 80 miles per hour,

then you have to allow about 353 years for the trip ... going straight as an arrow,

straight through the sun, not around it.

Answer 2

At opposition Mars is only about 36 million miles from the earth. At 60 miles per hour a vehicle can cover that distance in just about 1 lifetime or about 68-69 years. With bathroom breaks it will take longer. Since Mars and Earth are closest at opposition you would "drive" to the opposition point and simply wait for Mars to arrive there which at most would take about 1.9 years. Or with careful timing you can plan to be there right on time!

Note that many older cars have odometers which "turn over" every 100,000 miles. Even a trip to the moon, which is far closer than Mars would turn the odometer over twice. A well maintained vehicle would be capable of the trip to the moon but a trip to Mars would surely require a number of engine replacements and overhauls. Modern odometers will register up to 1 million miles, so a trip to mars would cause these odometers to "turn over" about 36 times.

Of course a highway to Mars that a modern vehicle could travel on is impossible to build. But even if it could be, there is no vehicle that could hold up to the wear and tear that such a trip would produce, even if one were religious about the 15,000 mile checkups and oil changes. This is actually a practical consideration and serious problem for interstellar travel by ships that would likely require hundreds of years to travel between the stars.

but you forget that i have a batmobile. so my trip would take batman

Answer 3

Well, that depends on the acceleration of the car. If you could continuously accelerate at the car's top acceleration rate for a few days, and then decelerate for a few days at the other end, it would only take a few weeks.

But if you're stuck at 55mph, it will take a lot longer. Earth is 92 million miles from the sun, and mars is in the neighborhood of 140 million miles. At their closest approach, divide 48 million miles by 55 miles an hour. It's something on the order of 900,000 hours. (I'm not actually doing the math, but making rough estimates.)

And it depends on where the planets are in their orbits. Are you going to wait for their close approach to each other? Are you going as they are now, which is not particularly close? Mars is currently about 120° away around the sun from us.

I understand that this question was probably put to you as homework, but it's a silly question. Cars don't work in space.

Answer 4

It depends on how fast you're traveling. If you're going as fast as the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), it would take you 182.3 seconds to 1,338.7 seconds depending upon Mars' current position in orbit (If you're travelling at the speed at you would at the risk of damaging the entire solar system and have created a possibility of creating a black hole).

Answer 5

If cars could fly at a speed of around 600 miles per hour (typical cruising speed of an airplane), it would take approximately 1 year to travel to Mars, assuming a direct path. This is because the distance between Earth and Mars varies depending on their positions in their orbits around the sun.

Answer 6

it will take you exactly 2000 hours and 38 minutes

Answer 7

It takes anywhere from 150 to 300 days to go from the Earth to Mars. The amount of time it takes depends on the speed of the rocket used and the speed of the launch.

Answer 8

1 or 2 or 3 years at the max

Answer 9

A long time.