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
We were surprised to learn that the distance isn't actually fixed in that it depends where the planets are in their orbits. The nearest that Mars has ever been to the Earth is 56 million km or about 34.8 million miles.