Driving to the Sun . ... Credit Copyright: EIT Consortium , SOHO project , ESA , NASA Explanation: How long would it take to drive to the Sun? Brittany, age 7, and D.J., age 12, ponder this question over dinner one evening. ... Let's see ... the Sun is 93 million miles away . So, if we drove 93 miles per hour the trip would only take us 1 million hours." ... One hundred years would be 876,000 hours, still a little short of the 1 million hour drive time -- so the Sun is really quite far away. ...