How long does it take to travel to mercury?

Answer 1

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it is the fastest to orbit the sun. It takes 88 days for the Mercury to completely orbit the sun.

Answer 2

The length of one year (one revolution around the Sun) on

Mercury

is 88.0 days.

Answer 3

Mercury - at it's closest - is about 77,000,000 km away. The fastest speed ever achieved by a space craft is 39,895 k/ph. So now, we just need to do some math.

Kilometers travelled per day: 39,895 x 24 = 957,480km/day

How many days travelled from Earth --> Mercury: 77,000,000/957,480 = 80.45 days, not accounting for fuel or the movement of Mercury.

Answer 4

It takes Mercury about 87.97 Earth days to orbit the Sun.

The orbit is elliptical, but for simplicity consider it to be a circle.

The length of the orbital path itself would then be twice pi times the radius.

That's roughly 364 million kilometers.

This answer from data on the web: Mercury travels about 223.7 million miles

on each orbit.

That's 360 million kilometers.

Answer 5

In fact there is no exact answer to this question, because the distance to Mercury varies as the Earth and Mercury move around the Sun in their separate orbits. Assuming Mercury and Earth are lined up in a straight line by the time you get to Mercury, it would take around 110 days.

Answer 6

It varies, since mercury's distance from the sun varies by quite a bit. On average though it is 0.387 AU from the sun, so 38.7% of the earth to sun distance. Sunlight takes 499 seconds to reach earth, so for mercury the average time is 499 x 0.387 = 193 seconds. 3 minutes and 13 seconds.

Answer 7

• Since Mercury orbits the Sun, and it follows a very elliptical path on its journey around the Sun, our two planets can vary their distance significantly.

• When Mercury is at its closest point to Earth, that happens when Mercury was at its furthest from the Sun, and Earth is at its closest, Mercury and Earth would be separated by only 77 million km (48 million miles).

• Their maximum distance occur when Earth is at its furthest point from the Sun, and Mercury is at its maximum on the other side of the Sun. The three objects then line up perfectly. At this point, Mercury and Earth can be 222 million km (138 million miles) apart.

Answer 8

88 days.
Mercury takes 88 days to circle the sun.

Answer 9

it takes 97 days that's just under 3 months

Answer 10

From Earth to Mercury would take around 5 minutes.