Figure 1 (below): Mars’ apparent motion through Taurus. Imag…
Figure 1 (below): Mars’ apparent motion through Taurus. Image from Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977 (1957) Figure 1 shows the apparent motion of Mars through the sky over the course of several months. In two complete sentences, why does Mars exhibit this strange loop-the-loop behavior?
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Kepler’s Second Law. Because Earth’s orbit slightly elliptical, it’s sometimes a little closer to the Sun and sometimes a little farther away. This also means that it speeds up and slows down each year. It travels the fastest when it is
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