The Mars

Mars is the fourth planet out from the sun. it moves around the sun at a mean distance of 228 million km (140 million miles),or about 1.5 times the distance of Earth from the Sun.

Mars relatively elongated orbit, the distance between mars and the Sun varies from 206.6 million to 249.2 million miles. mars orbits the Sun once in 687 Earth days which means that its year is nearly twice as long as Earth's

At its closest approach, Mars is less than 56 million km (35 million miles)fromEarth, but it recedes to almost 400 million km(250 million miles) when the two planets are on opposite sides of the solar system.

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