Orbit of Mars
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Mars has an orbit with a semimajor axis of 1.524 astronomical units (228 million km) (12.673 light minutes), and an eccentricity of 0.0934.[1][2] The planet orbits the Sun in 687 days[3] and travels 9.55 AU in doing so,[4] making the average orbital speed 24 km/s.
The eccentricity is greater than that of every other planet except Mercury, and this causes a large difference between the aphelion and perihelion distances—they are 1.6660 and 1.3814 AU.[5] [citation needed]