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How Can We Get to Mars Faster?
Space is big, right? Like, between here and the moon, it's several hundred thousand miles even. And so the solar system is hard to get around, because everything is so far away. When we launch robotic probes to the outer solar system, it can take ten, 15, 20 years to reach those places. I think the trip to mars, just to mars, wild take several months,. And that's if you're lucky, right? Earth and mars are near each other sometimes and far apart other times. The shortest trip to mars is like more than half a year. It'd be awesome to be able to get to mars much faster. If they didn't have to spend
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