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Originally Posted by BobClay
Fixing a wobbly helicopter from nearly a quarter of a million miles away. That's quite a ground crew ...  |
I'm the new guy, probably not my place to correct.
The nearest approach to Mars is 54.6 million kliks - 33 & 3/4 million miles.
The farthest distance is 410 million kliks - 250 & 5/8 million miles.
Average is 225 million kliks - 140 & 5/8 million miles. It's the moon that's roughly a quarter million miles.
I can recalibrate these distances to light-seconds should you wish. I gotta nice graphing calculator here. I maybe understand 12% of it's capabilities.
Never flown in a helicopter, never will. They're unnatural, unaerodynamic, unmechanical creations.