How Long Is Trip to Jupiter Really?

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1:01Kind of like aiming a dart at a moving target or throwing a surprise party for your friend. You don't want the surprise to come at the wrong moment. Also, when we send spacecraft to other planets, we want to use as little energy as possible and to get to any planet out there and... Are your ad campaigns lighting up the dashboard? But not the pipeline. That's Bullspend. And marketers are calling it out in... dashboard confessions. My boss asked for results, so I opened my dashboard for the only positive sounding metric I had. Impressions. Cut the Bullspend. See revenue? Not just reach. LinkedIn delivers the highest return on ad spend of major ad networks. Advertise on LinkedIn. Spend $250 on your first campaign and get a $25 credit go to LinkedIn.com slash campaign turn sick edition supply. You know, the partnership between United Airlines and Annie's Island is so seamless. We're finishing each other's sentences. But what does that mean for you? Oh, just all the good stuff. Like earning miles on every mile you fly.

2:02And not having to check your bags more than once. And that's not to mention... Our lounges. And also our lounges. Which is double the lounging. Oh, did we mention how much easier it is when you can book all your flights together? Hey, yeah, that's what I was going to say. United and Annie's Island. Two airlines. One way to fly. The easiest way possible. You actually need a special trick called the Holman Transfer Orbit. Let's say you want to travel to Mars. You have to wait until Earth and the Red Planet are in the right positions. So you don't get lost up there or run out of fuel somewhere halfway. Traveling there using a Holman Transfer Orbit would take about 259 days. That's because the transfer orbit between Earth and Mars takes 517 days to complete a full orbit. And the trip to Mars covers half of that orbit. Couldn't you just travel faster? Well, yeah, but that would waste way more fuel. Which would make the launch more complicated

3:04since the rocket would be too heavy. Basically, it would be like a dog biting its own tail. If you could travel at the speed of light, it would take you 12.5 minutes. Also, when your rocket finally gets to the other planet, it still needs to slow down to go into orbit around it or even land on its surface. This means it will use more energy. But you can try to use as little as possible and maybe go with things such as parachutes or aerodynamic braking. It's kind of like if you were riding your skateboard and needed to stop. You wouldn't just crash into a wall. You'd use your foot or something to slow down gradually. Traveling to Venus is a bit quicker. It would take you about 146 days. That's not bad. But the problem is you'd still need to wait for about two years before coming back to Earth. That's necessary because the planets need to realign themselves properly so that the spacecraft can meet Earth's orbit

4:05when it returns. So, in total, around trip to Venus would take around two years in one month, including the waiting time. And that waiting time wouldn't be that pleasant, considering that's the hottest planet in our solar system. Let's say you want to travel to Jupiter. How long will that take? It depends on a lot of things. Mainly its position. Plus, how faster you travel in. If you want to use the best technology we have right now, you should know that it took the fastest spacecraft ever built. NASA's new horizons just over a year to reach Jupiter. But keep in mind that the new horizons mission was just a flyby. The spacecraft didn't actually go into orbit around Jupiter. If you wanted to stay in orbit and explore Jupiter up close, it would take way longer. So definitely not a weekend trip. Using the home and transfer, you'd need several years to get to...

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6:05Jupiter. That's because a home and transfer puts focus on transferring an object from one orbit to another. Jupiter is in a higher orbit than our home planet. So, to finish the transfer, your rocket would need to travel along a path that would take it past the orbit of our gas giant. So, the rocket would need to speed up when it gets closer to Jupiter to avoid falling back towards the sun. And then slow down when it passes Jupiter to avoid flying off into space. It's like a car speeding up to climb a hill and then slowing down as it goes down the other side. This is how the spacecraft uses the gravity of Jupiter to move into orbit around the gas giant. It's hard to tell the exact distance between Jupiter and Earth. They're both traveling around the sun in different oval-shaped paths. Sometimes they get really close to each other. And other times, they're really far apart. It's like they're playing tag. But on average, they're 444 million miles away from each other.

7:06When Jupiter is farthest away from Earth, it's a whopping 601 million miles away. That's like driving around the entire Earth 24,000 times. But if you could travel to Jupiter at the speed of light, on average, you'd get there in 40 minutes. There's this super-fast spacecraft we need to mention, the Parker Solar Pro. Imagine you're on a really fast roller coaster moving at incredible speeds that are hard to fathom. The roller coaster would actually be our Parker Solar Probe. It's flying closer and closer to the sun, breaking speed records along the way. During its 10th close fly-by of the sun in November 2021, the Parker Solar Probe managed to reach a top speed of more than 360,000 miles per hour. That's like traveling around the whole Earth in several minutes. And get this, when the spacecraft gets even closer to the sun in December 2024, it's expected to reach a speed

8:09of 430,000 miles per hour. Yep, not a good idea to have a big lunch before this roller coaster. Now, let's say you're on the Parker Solar Probe and you want to take a detour to visit Jupiter. If you were able to travel in a straight line at the same speed the Parker Solar Probe was going during its 10th fly-by, it would only take you 42 days to reach Jupiter at its closest approach. On their average distance, you'd need a little bit longer to get there, 51 days. You'd also have to consider the duration of your trip. There are two ways your rocket can arrive at a planet, either by going into orbit around the planet or by just flying by really fast. If the spacecraft is supposed to go into orbit, it needs to slow down when it gets close to the planet. Imagine it gets captured by the planet's gravity and starts going around it, better to slow it down when it arrives then. And this means burning lots of extra fuel and making your trip longer.

9:11You're something interesting. To travel faster, we can use something called gravity assist. That means we use the gravity of planets and other objects in space to give us a little push and speed our precious rocket up. That's how the Voyager spacecraft were able to travel to Saturn and beyond. But even with a gravity assist, it still takes a really long time to travel to other stars. For example, the star that's closest to us is Proximus Centauri, and it's still 4.2 light years away. Let's change the method now compared to the previous examples. If we traveled at the same speed as Voyager 1, it would take us 75,000 years to get there. If you prefer to take a trip to Uranus, know that the distance goes up to 2 billion miles. Depending on the spot where the planets are during their orbits, it took about 9.5 years for Voyager 2 to reach Uranus. But Uranus is cold and, as an ice giant,

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