Not going to land or even orbit Mars. From a response from Elon Musk: > It’s going near Mars. He said it’ll be placed in “a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical o

Not going to land or even orbit Mars. From a response from Elon Musk: > It’s going near Mars. He said it’ll be placed in “a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.” What he means by this is what’s sometimes called a Hohmann transfer orbit, an orbit around the Sun that takes it as close to the Sun as Earth and as far out as Mars. This is a low-energy orbit; that is, it takes the least amount of energy to put something in this orbit from Earth. That makes sense for a first flight. http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/elon-musk-on-the-roadster-to-mars http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/elon-musk-on-the-roadster-to-ma...