Question: Trip to Mars you are wailing on a project with NASA to launch a rocket to Mars, with the rocket blasting off from earth when

Trip to Mars you are wailing on a project with NASA to launch a rocket to Mars, with the rocket blasting off from earth when earth and Mars are aligned along a straight line from the sun. If Mars is now 60 s head of earth in its orbit around the sun, when should you launch the rocket? (Note: All the planets orbit the sun in the same direction, 1 year on Mars are 1.9 earth-years, and assume circular orbits for both planets.)

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