Do. 1  Do spend some time understanding the point of what you are about to write. 2  Do make lists. 3  Do use an appropriate tone. 4  Do write several drafts of each paragraph. 5  Do compare your first draft copy with other material from previous issues of the journal or website.
Mars is so far away in fact that it takes radio signals quite a long time to get from the spacecraft back to Earth. During Curiosity EDL, this delay will be 13 minutes, 48 seconds, about mid-way between the minimum delay of around 4 minutes and the maximum of around 24 minutes.
Report Abuse. Radio waves travel at the speed of light one hundred and ninety million miles per second. A radio wave sent to Mars will take about four minutes to get there, and the return message will take four minutes, eight minutes both ways.It takes the light from the sun eight minutes to reach th earth, if the sun was to go out, it would be eight minutes until you will know it has gone out.t its closest Mars is about 35million miles away. At its most distant it is about 230 million miles away. The speed of radio waves is 186000 miles per second so at its furthest the radio waves will take about 20minutes to get there. Work it out on a calculator for greater accuracy.