Imagine you grew up on Mars, whose semi-major axis is 1.5 AU.  In observing the planets over your lifetime from the Martian surface, what is the largest angular separation you would see between the Earth and the Sun?  Take the orbits of the Earth and Mars to be circular

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Imagine you grew up on Mars, whose semi-major axis is 1.5 AU.  In observing the planets over your lifetime from the Martian surface, what is the largest angular separation you would see between the Earth and the Sun?  Take the orbits of the Earth and Mars to be circular.

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