For example, service covered by the Foreign Service Pension System is potentially (but not fully) creditable when an employee waives his or her rights to benefits under that system and makes the required FERS deposit to OPM. Break in Service of Three Days or Less That Includes Dec. 31, 2012.
The average distance to Mars from Earth is 140,000,000 miles or 225,000,000 kilometers. However, this value varies because the Earth's orbit around the sun is smaller than Mars' orbit. Continue Reading
Its distance from the Earth varies between 356,000 and 407,000 km (221,000 and 253,000 miles) in the course of each month; the average distance is 384,400 km (238,900 miles), less than 1% of the distance to Venus and Mars, even at the time of their closest approach.