How long would it take an instruction to a martian rover to travel from a nasa site on earth to mars? assume the instruction is travelling at the speed of light (3.00 Ã 108 m/s)?

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How long would it take an instruction to a martian rover to travel from a nasa site on earth to mars? assume the instruction is travelling at the speed of light (3.00 Ã 108 m/s)?

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75,000,000 km / 300,000 = 250 seconds, or about 4 minutes and 10 seconds.

TutuDajuju answered Oct 12, 2018

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