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It took them approx. 4,881 hours from launch to land approx. 127,770,000 miles away. Is it safe to say that the average speed of the mission can be calculated a

• andbberger 6y ago
  no. hohmann transfer, not a straight line. also there are no absolute reference frames.
  • alkonaut 6y ago
    > also there are no absolute reference frames. "Well, officer, perhaps to you it seemed like I was speeding there..."
    • mr_toad 6y ago
      Just, remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned A sun that is the source of all our power The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way - Monty Python.
• mikeyouse 6y ago
  I think you dropped a thousands somewhere.. 127.8M miles/4,881hrs = 26,000 mph.[1] But in reality, it obviously didn't fly in a straight line, Looks like it traveled closer to 292 million miles[2], so more like 60,000 mph.[3] [1] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=127800000+miles%2F4881hrs https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=127800000+miles%2F4881... [2] - https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/cruise/ https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/cruise/ [3] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=292526838+miles%2F4881hrs https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=292526838+miles%2F4881...
  • pupdogg 6y ago
    You are correct, I did. Thank you. That's just amazing!