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.
Distance km miles AU Light minutes; Mercury to Sun Distance: 59.13 million 36.74 million 0.4 3.3; Mercury to Venus Distance: 117 million 72.4 million 0.78 6.48; Mercury to Earth Distance: 155.4 million 96.6 million 1.04 8.64; Mercury to Mars Distance: 233 million 145 million 1.56 13; Mercury to Jupiter Distance: 780 million 485 million 5.21 43.4; Mercury to Saturn Distance: 1.43 billion 888 million 9.55 79.4; Mercury to Uranus Distance: 2.88 billion 1.79 billion 19.2 160