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.
About Mercury. Mercury is the smallest and closest to the Sun of the eight planets in the Solar System, [ a ] with an orbital period of about 88 Earth days. Seen from Earth, it appears to move around its orbit in about 116 days, which is much faster than any other planet in the Solar System.