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It's called retrograde motion, and it's just the result of Earth, being an inferior planet, "catching up and passing" Mars relative to their orbits. When your car passes another car on the road, the other car isn't moving backwards, but if there weren't any background objects to compare it to (fenchposts, for example) it would SEEM to have reversed.

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