Orbital eccentricity of Mars, illustration. The eccentricity of an orbit is the amount that its elliptical orbit deviates from a perfect circle. This is shown here by the blue arrow. Mars has the greatest eccentricity of any of the planets. It has an eccentricity of 0.0934. The eccentricity itself varies over time, on a timescale of hundreds of thousands of years. | |
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