Q: How long’s a light minute?
A: A light year is 5,878,625,373,183.608 miles. For our purposes, we’re going to round up to 6,000,000,000,000. There are 525,600 minutes in a non-leap year. So…
A light minute is 11,184,599.3 miles.
The Earth is roughly 36 million miles from Mars, which would take about three and a half light minutes to reach.
