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Someone has a GIF (or explanation) of the Earth-Mars Orbit?
by julien_c 9y ago
Someone has a GIF (or explanation) of the Earth-Mars Orbit?
- ajnin 9y agoThe car is on an elliptic heliocentric orbit that crosses the Earth orbit at its perihelion and crosses Mars' orbit at its aphelion. It is not in orbit around either planet.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoIt's a Hohmann transfer orbit. It will be orbiting the sun, with a periapsis (point of closest approach) at Earth's orbit an apoapsis at Mars's orbit. It's not going to circularize at Mars, and indeed will intersect Mars orbit quite a ways behind Mars. TL;DR: Elliptical solar orbit.