当第一次用望远镜观测到火星时,人们从飞机上看到,火星的圆形圆盘在地球上纵横交错。
When the planet Mars was first observed through a telescope, people saw that the round disk of the planet was criss-crossed on earth that are viewed from an airplane.
这颗星球每围太阳绕行一周,它的椭圆形轨道的中轴就变化一次。
The mainaxis of the planet's orbital ellipse shifts each time it goes round the sun.
艾萨克·牛顿在其后发现彗星沿椭圆轨迹移动,处于环绕太阳的椭圆形轨道上,他还准确地预测了彗星能够一次又一次地回归。
Isaac Newton later discovered that comets move in elliptical, oval-shaped orbits around the Sun, and correctly predicted that they could return again and again.
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