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.
although one of the brighter objects in the heavens most people have never seen mercury it is difficult to study from earth because mercury is so close to the sun its maximum angular separation greatest elongation is only 28o on either side of the sun