RE: What the Sun looks like from the other planets
July 18, 2018 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2018 at 10:06 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 17, 2018 at 9:04 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Although nice to look at I don't think they are very accurate renditions.
How so? Granted some of the surface features depicted may nor be the most typical of what would be encountered on each of those bodies. Such as on airless mercury, which has been geologically dead for several billion years, it should be uncommon to find rugged rock formations exposed on the surface that has not been worn down to subdued rounded form by billions of micrometeror impacts.
But what do you think is distinctly wrong and impossible?
(July 18, 2018 at 12:01 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(July 17, 2018 at 11:53 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: I wish they did some of the moons i would love to see the sun from Europa.
Europa sounds terrifying
I think the view from Saturn is just for dramatic effect
The views from the gas giants are from one of their moons. In fact, the one for Jupiter is specifically identified as being from Europa because, well, on the planets themselves, there isn't a surface to land on. I suppose it makes sense for the view from Saturn to be focused on the rings, but the proportions remain out of whack and the cloudy aerial view from Saturn is still nonsensical.
How is it nonsense? there are extensive ammonia and water vapor clouds in saturn’s atmosphere just like there are in Jupiter’s. It seems this view of sunset is quite reasonable from say 10 degrees away from saturn’s equator and above the main cloud deck.
Also, just as you can see a beautiful sunset from an airplane on earth, it doesn’t require a surface for there to be a beautiful view of the sun from a planet.
