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Space
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Rebecca Sohn

How long would it take to walk around Mars?

A person in a brown spacesuit walking on a reddish-orange desert.

Humans have long had a fascination with Mars, and NASA has ambitious plans to send astronauts there within the next few decades. Anyone walking on Mars would likely explore only a small fraction of the planet's surface. 

But without oceans or other bodies of water, could an astronaut walk all the way around the Red Planet? How long would it take to walk around Mars?

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