How far is mars from Venus'?

Answer 1

Well read carefully:

Mars: 142,000,000 mi away from the sun

Venus: 67,000,000 mi away from the sun

thus:

142,000,000 - 67,000,000 = 75,000,000 mi

so Venus is 75,000,000 miles far from Mars.

(This would be the distance when they are closest in their orbit)

The average distance from Mars to Venus is 9.80 astronomical units. This equals 74,364,646 miles and 119,678,297 kilometers. The Earth is located between these two planets.

When they are furthest apart, the distance is 142,000,000 + 67,000,000 = 209,000,000 miles.

Answer 2

It varies quite a bit.

Venus orbits between the Sun and Earth at a distance of 67.2 million miles (108.2 million km) in an orbit that takes 225 Earth days.

Mars orbits the Sun beyond Earth's orbit at an average distance of 141 million miles (228 million km), though Mars has a fairly elliptical orbit (coming as close as 128.4 million miles, and wandering as far as 154.8 million miles), every 687 Earth days.

So, the distance between the two planets can be as close as (about) 35 million miles (56.3 million km), or be as much as 222 million miles (357 million km) apart.

Answer 3

Contrary to the illustration in school textbooks, the distance is not fixed.

You have to remember that venus and mars are both moving around the sun at different speeds, it's quite possible for Mars and venus to both be on the same side of the sun at the same time (their closest point), or be opposite sides of the sun (the farthest distance).

At their closest Mars and Venus pass are roughly 140 million kilometers apart. At their most distant they can be as much as 350 million

To go one step further, you could take into account that planets distances to the sun vary because their orbits are elliptical, mars distance to the sun varies from 206 to 249 million km, while that of Venus varies only from 108 to 109.

The distance between mars and Venus varies between 97 and 358 million km.