Could you run a marathon on Mars? And also — would you want to?
NASA's Perseverance rover just completed an off-Earth marathon: It has now traveled more than 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) across the Martian landscape after landing in February 2021, according to the mission team. The only other rover to complete a marathon on the Red Planet is Opportunity, which took over 11 years to traverse the distance. But as NASA looks toward potentially landing humans on the Red Planet some day, it makes me wonder: What would it be like to complete a marathon on Mars … on foot?
