If Earth is 149.6 million Kilometers from the sun, or 93 million miles away. suppose there was an imaginary road from earth to the sun. If you were in a car traveling 100 km an hour, it would take you 1,490,000 hours or just 170 years to reach the sun. If it took 170 years to drive from earth to the sun, how many years would it take to drive from Jupiter to the sun at the same speed. While Jupiter is 778.3 ,million km from the sun.

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