Timeline for Would Jupiter look big?
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| Apr 24, 2021 at 18:22 | vote | accept | CommonerG | ||
| Apr 24, 2021 at 18:21 | comment | added | CommonerG | Good question. I had in mind looking at the planet from orbit or approaching orbit. Perceiving the scale from the surface seemed even more hopeless to me. :) | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 15:10 | comment | added | Fattie | Welcome new user! it's unclear if you mean if you were standing on the surface of another planet, or, if you were approaching the planet in your spaceship. | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 22:43 | comment | added | uhoh | I don't think we ever find out how big Solaris is, but it's certainly beautiful!! Perceiving scale is tough from orbit, refer to the GIF shown here where the cubesat looks like it's going to hit the surface any second. | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 22:36 | history | edited | uhoh |
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| Apr 23, 2021 at 17:55 | comment | added | JPhi1618 | This is similar to how the moon looks huge when its on the horizon, but looks comparatively smaller when its in the middle of the sky (it's always the same size). With nothing else around to judge size, it's really hard to tell. | |
| Apr 23, 2021 at 14:18 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Earth looks big, and it is, compared to you at least. There's a reason there are loonies out there who think it's flat - most of us don't often get the opportunity to fly high enough to see the curvature of its surface. If you could stand on the surface of Jupiter (assuming it had a surface rather than being a gas giant), the horizon wouldn't look all that different from Earth's, because Earth is already large enough to appear flat from the surface. The difference is you'd have to be flying much higher above the "surface" to be able to see that curvature. | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 20:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 22, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/1385292364726558720 | ||
| Apr 22, 2021 at 16:39 | answer | added | Innovine | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 13:19 | comment | added | Innovine | Up until the point that jupiter starts filling up half the sky and looking more and more like a flat plane, the approach would lack any easy visual cues. However, if the space traveller knows anything about jupiters mass, or the approach path, then geometry can be used to give a size estimate. So passengers might not know the size, but the pilot certainly would. | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 12:53 | answer | added | user21103 | timeline score: 25 | |
| Apr 22, 2021 at 12:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 22, 2021 at 12:19 | history | asked | CommonerG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |