Hello Mars!

Find out the communication latency between Earth and Mars.

How long does it take for my message to reach {{ to_body_text_en }} from {{ from_body_text_en }}?

to

The communication time between {{ from_body_text_en }} and {{ to_body_text_en }} depends on the time. {{ compute_draw_sol_scale_factor }}

Current Local Time is

It takes {{ earth_mars_distance_lm }} minutes for your message to reach {{ to_body_text_en }} from {{ from_body_text_en }}. A round trip would be {{ earth_mars_round_trip }} minutes.

We sketched the relative positions of the bodies.

To find out the distance for those nearby dates, we made this interactive plot. The red dot indicates the date of your choice.