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Mars has no fixed relationship to Orion, or to any other stars. In ancient times, Mars, Venus and Jupiter were called "planets", from the Greek word for "wanderer"; the planets wander across the fixed stars, which do not change their relationships. (They actually do, but so slowly that a lifetime isn't enough to see the changes.)

Here in January, 2010, Mars appears near Orion in the evening sky, but as the Earth speeds past Mars in its orbit, Mars appears to move "retrograde" - the reverse of its normal path across the sky. By next month, it will have moved past Orion and will rise earlier and earlier each day.

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