Apparent retrograde motion notable on Mars which has two natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos. Both moons orbit Mars in an eastward (prograde) direction, however Deimos has an orbital period of 1.23 Martian sidereal days, making it supersynchronous, whereas Phobos has an orbital period of 0.31 Martian sidereal days making it subsynchronous. Consequently, although both moons are travelling in an eastward (prograde) direction, they appear to be travelling in opposite directions when viewed from the surface of Mars due to their orbital periods in relation to the rotational period of the planet. All other planetary bodies in the Solar System also appear to periodically
Solar System model Solar System model Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called "orreries", that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed relative sizes, these models were usually not built to scale. The enormous ratio of interplanetary distances to planetary diameters makes constructing a scale model of the Solar System a challenging task. As one example of the difficulty, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is almost 12,000 times the diameter of the Earth. If the smaller planets are to be easily visible to