Why does Mars look like it is moving backwards?

Ours has 8 real planets and a dwarf planet, ie, spinning continuously around the Sun. Most of these planets are visible from the Earth with the naked eye.

If you watch them continuously in the night sky, you will see their positions change slowly, because when they orbit the Sun, they move from west to east in the sky with standing stars. Saddle is very far away.

However, sometimes, some of these planets look as if they are moving in the opposite direction, ie from East to West over a period of several weeks, then return to the normal direction. This movement is called 'reverse movement'. What is reverse play and exactly what happened at those times?

The reverse motion is actually just an illusion. The Earth orbits the Sun faster than other planets farther away from the Sun, and when the Earth passes through one of these planets, the planet looks like it is moving backwards. The fact that the planet is still moving normally, but because our optic nerve receives another image only.

This movement is called 'reverse movement'.

Try to think this way: you are in a car that runs on the highway, and you pass another car in the same direction. As you pass, the other car looks like it is running backwards. Of course, the fact is not entirely that the other car suddenly ran backwards but because of the relative position and dynamics between your car and the other car, making your feeling of the other car backward.

Now, apply that thought to Mars.Every two years, Mars looks like going back in the sky for a month or two . In 2018, Mars's reverse movement begins on June 28 and follows the West to East in the sky we see. This phenomenon ended on August 28 and Mars returned to its normal course. In fact, in these two months, Mars is nothing unusual, it is Earth.

The Earth rotates around the Sun for 365 days, and Mars needs 687 Earth days to spin one round like that. Both planets are moving, but Mars has to go a long way to complete one round. Every 26 months, the Earth meets Mars and crosses Mars, and when it passes, we have the illusion that Mars is backing back to us, and the fact that we are moving forward Fire.

After 2 months in that condition, our sight returns to normal movement and we see Mars keep moving forward.

Another strange thing is: because the Earth and Mars have different orbital plane angles, the shape of Mars's path in reverse is also different in reverse movements. If you observe and mark Mars's location every night during this time, you will see it form a shape, sometimes like a ring, sometimes resembling zigzag lines, depending on the planets Where are they on their tilting axis.

If the Earth and Mars have the same rotational speed and are relatively constant in relation to each other during their journey on orbit, Mars is always moving from West to West; but it is not so, but every 2 years, Mars temporarily falls behind the Earth.

In the past astronomers have observed inversely motion and tried very hard to explain this phenomenon, but it is impossible to explain because then they still believe that the Earth is the center of the solar system, giving so arguments cannot be logical. By the sixteenth century, when the Polish astronomer put the Sun at the center of the Solar System, the explanation for the reverse movement became clear and convincing.