A map of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
Since the distances are so large, we usually express them in Astronomical Units (AU). (An AU is the average distance from Earth to the Sun, about 150 million kilometers or 93 million miles.) The table below lists the distance of each planet from the Sun in AU. (Numbers were taken from this page.)
I don't know the CURRENT distance between the sun and Earth, but the AVERAGE distance is 149,600,000,000 meters. Well distance equals speed times time, so time equals distance over speed. So we do 149,600,000,000 meters divided by 299,792,458 m/s which gives us 499 seconds, otherwise known as 8 minutes 19 seconds. That's how long it takes light to go from the sun to Earth. Oni_Kami.