The most unusual thing about Mars's orbit, however, is the fact that it has the 2nd most "eccentric" orbit out of the 8 planets in our Solar System. That means it is the least circular orbit after Mercury's. read more
Is Mars orbit unusual - 343435. All the planets have similar orbital patterns except for pluto see this image on the planets orbit read more
To do this, he compared the Sun-Mars distance measures that he computed previously in Chapters 26, 27, and 28 with the distances a perfect-circle model of the orbit would require for observations corresponding to these lines of sight from Mars to the Sun. read more