The idea of a snail crawling from Earth to Mars is a fun hypothetical scenario! While it's not physically possible for a snail to survive and move through space, we can calculate how long it would take based on average distances and the snail's typical speed.
- Average speed of a common garden snail: Approximately 1 millimeter per second (mm/s), which is 0.001 meters per second (m/s).
The distance between Earth and Mars varies due to their elliptical orbits around the Sun: