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
Mars orbits the Sun at an average distance of 228 million km, which is about 1.5 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. Earth and Mars can get as close as 54.6 million km apart, making Earth the closest planet to Mars. The size of Mars makes it the third largest terrestrial planet, after Earth and Venus.