Before It's News | Popular Watercooler
Planets in Orbit Around Earth!
Cool Infographics: Charts and graphs can communicate data; infographics turn data into information. From Ron’s description: At a distance of about 240,000 miles, the Moon occupies a space in the night sky about half a degree wide. By sheer coincidence, this is almost exactly the same size the sun appears, which is why we occasionally get total solar eclipses.
But it’s interesting to imagine what the night sky might look like if one of the Solar System’s planets were to replace our moon. (We’d have to ignore things like tides and gravitation, but that’s the advantage of doing things in the mind’s eye.) Saturn would be an astonishing sight.
No comments:
Post a Comment