unlike the voyage to the moon which only took a few days the trip to mars will take much longer time mars is farther away than the moon it is thefourth planet from the sun it takes mars 687 days to make its earth about 365 days to make one orbit around the sun(one earth year)
the journey from one planet to another would take anywhere from six to sixteen months with a round trip usually taking more than two years how long the trip from earth to mars would take depends on the sun it takes at least six months to get to mars from earth for a one-way trip then a traveler has to stay there for several months until the two planets approach their closest positions again before he takes off for the at least sin-months journey home
mars has two moons phobos and deimos which are named after the dogs of the roman god mars phobos orbits mars once in less than one martian day the time it takes mars to rotate once on its axis so it appears to rise in the west and set in the east usually twice each day unlike phobos deimos rises in the east and sets in the west