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.
Mercury: In Depth. The battered surface of Mercury. Image Credit: NASA/USGS/JHUAPL. Mercury's eccentric orbit takes the small planet as close as 47 million km (29 million miles) and as far as 70 million km (43 million miles) from the sun. If one could stand on the scorching surface of Mercury when it is at its closest point to the sun, the sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth.