Contrary to the 'point and shoot' idea, an actual trip to mars looks very round a bout as the figure above shows for a typical 'minimum cost' trajectory. This, by the way, is called a Hoeman Transfer Orbit, and is the main stay of interplanetary space travel. It depends on the details of the orbit you take between the Earth and Mars. The typical time during Mars's closest approach to the Earth every 1.6 years is about 260 days. Again, the details depend on the rocket velocity and the closeness of the planets, but 260 days is the number I hear most often give or take 10 days. Some high-speed transfer orbits could make the trip in as little as 130 days.
The MIT team conducted this research in cooperation with the Haughton Mars Project (www.marsonearth.org), an international interdisciplinary field research project sponsored by NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and managed by the Mars Institute. The site is focused on the scientific study of the 38-million-year-old Haughton impact crater and surrounding terrain on Devon Island.
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