Might not be what you think... Nice graphics to show why the answer is accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDgbVIqGADQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDgbVIqGADQ&feature=youtu.be
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Space: What is the closest planet to Earth?
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Interesting. I love the way something which appears obvious, Mars is the closest, is challenged, then it turns out the challenge was challenged and Mercury is statistically closer than Venus.
*sigh*
Once again, science gets it wrong.
And this one's obvious... I mean, there's a Planet Hollywood right downtown. I can drive there.
Can I drive to Mercury?
I don't think so...
Once again, science gets it wrong.
And this one's obvious... I mean, there's a Planet Hollywood right downtown. I can drive there.
Can I drive to Mercury?
I don't think so...
Mercury: Yer lil buddy who's always there for you, even when Mars and Venus don't answer your texts.
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That's pretty cool and it makes sense if you think in terms of average distance instead of at the planet''s closest point to another. Mercury makes such a small circle and is so close to the sun that it's never all that far away compared to even Venus when it is at the opposite side of its orbit from us.
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Looking at the model, it made me wonder how people missed the fact that the distance over time is a cycloid, not a sinusoid. Anything closest to the barycenter is going to be closer to everything else than anything else.