Comment by philipwhiuk

Not really no.

It is true that we don't actually orbit the centre of the Sun, but it is very close.

The problem with Mars getting close is that Mars is quite small and the Earth is a long way away and there are many other planets, some much more massive.

Mercury is actualy lot closer a lot more often (Mercury is the most-often close to all the planets by virtue of it's orbit close to the Sun).

Someone explains it in a bit more detail here: https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-surrounding-planets-influen...

There's a paper suggesting there's some 2.4 million year climate cycle https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46171-5 but that's too subtle for this visualisation.