2 all that can be seen from a certain point the perspective from the hotel balcony was dominated by the lake and mountains Synonyms command, lookout, outlook, panorama, view, prospect, vistaRelated Words landscape, scene, scenery; ken, sight; visual field.
The reason for this is that the planets have elliptical orbits and none of them are perfect circles. As an example, the distance between the planet Mercury and Earth can range from 77 million km at the closest point, to as far as 222 million km at the farthest. There is a huge amount of different in the distances between the planets depending on their position on their orbit path. The table below shows the eight planets and the average distance between them. The AU column is the distance in astronomical units. 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth, which is 149,600,000 km.
At perihelion it is 46,001,200 km from the Sun and at aphelion it is 69,816,900 km, a difference of 23,815,700 km giving it an eccentricity of 0.21. Mercuryâs orbit is inclined by 7 degrees to Earthâs ecliptic.