Q&A Trying to find the Current distance and communication delay to Mars

• Q&A Trying to find the Current distance and communication delay to Mars by Kit344 on 09 Feb, 2021 15:25
• So I understand that the distance between Earth and Mars varies over a 26 month period, and the last close approach was in October 2020
  
  I am trying to find the current, and expected communication delay time between Earth and Mars over the next few months.
  
  Is there a website that has this in minutes as well as kilometers ?
• #1 by eeergo on 09 Feb, 2021 16:26
• Quote from: Kit344 on 09 Feb, 2021 15:25

  So I understand that the distance between Earth and Mars varies over a 26 month period, and the last close approach was in October 2020
  
  I am trying to find the current, and expected communication delay time between Earth and Mars over the next few months.
  
  Is there a website that has this in minutes as well as kilometers ?
  

  
  Here you go, for any date in the XXth and XXIst centuries.
  
  https://theskylive.com/how-far-is-mars
• #2 by Kit344 on 09 Feb, 2021 17:06
• Thanks, I was surprised that the time is already in excess of 10.5 minutes today, only 4 months after the minimum of around 3 minutes.
  I had assumed that it was something like a sinusoidal graph, and am glad that I got that right !