ads8525 Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Can you guys help me figure out how long it would take for a radar signal to travel to mercury and back when Mercury is at its closest point to Earth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 The two orbital radii can be found with http://www.google.com/ The speed of the radar signal will be c = 3 x 10^8 m/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 And then simply: time = distance / speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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