50 light years away?
Not exactly a baseball’s toss in distance.
But then, I have to remember, Mars is at least what?
Some 238. MILLION Light Years away from earth, and we have already managed to send23 cameras there to peep around.
So, you never know.
Any water gotten from this exoplanet would have to be full sterilized and analyzed before use.
Mars isn’t 238 million light years away
Your math is way off, you might want to ping a moderator to delete it.
On average, Mars is about 158 million miles from Earth — so the average time for light to travel from Earth to Mars takes about 14 minutes and 6 seconds. 14 minutes is a lot less than 50 years.
Earth to mars distance is 238 million MILES (not light years).
One (1) light year is approx. 5.88 trillion miles.
Yeah like the others said... Mars is not that far. Light years is really more about time than distance. How many earth years does it take to travel at the speed of light? 50 light years means it would take 50 earth years to get there traveling at the speed of light. Nobody knows if humans can even travel at the speed of light and afaik no technology exists to move matter that fast (though, some say light contains matter so I wouldn’t rule it out entirely).
The distance to Mars is miles, not light years.
One light year = @ 6 trillion miles.
Alpha Centari, the nearest star to Earth is about 4.3 light years away. At current estimated best speeds for an interplanetary ship, one way travel time is estimated at 19,000 Earth years.
The star in the article is @ 50 light years away; so 221,000 voyage years?
Nope. We are just going to have to come up with faster-than-light (FTL) drive somehow.
Somehow.
Yeah.
Whoa. That's a long way away.
wtf are you talking about lol. Mars isn’t a million light years away lol
Mars...238 million light years?
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Just a refresher, a light year is the distance light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at roughly 186,000 miles per second. Mars is a lot closer than that