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Last Post 10/19/2011 11:20 AM by Terry Kucera

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10/19/2011 6:55 AM
how far is the sun from mars? chad / titan

Dawn Myers

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10/19/2011 7:42 AM
Like all the planets in our universe, Mars travels in an elliptical orbit so it has a point where it is closest to the Sun and point where it is furthest from the Sun. At it's closest or the perihelion it is 207 million km or 1.38 AU. At it's furthest or aphelion it is 249 million km or 1.67 AU

Terry Kucera

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10/19/2011 11:20 AM
Hi Chad, A good web site for that kind of information is http://nineplanets.org/ There you can look up that Mars is 227,940,000 km from the sun - 1.52 times farther than Earth Terry