Earth and jupiter..

[Albatross]

..seen from Mars
It`s not a fake
Amazing :awe:

 

[Ichinisan]

Those star-looking things around Jupiter: Are they moons?

[edit]
Yup.

 

[Blitzvogel]

That's a very cool image, and Earth looks much bigger than I would think, but I'm sure they have the lense to thank for that.

And yes Ichinisan, they are moons. As for the discrepancy in angle, Mars IIRC does not rotate along the "flat disc" of the solar system like most probably think, it orbits at an angle.

 

[Albatross]

Those star-looking things around Jupiter: Are they moons?

Yeah,Jupiter can has moons.

 

[Ichinisan]

Wow. The second link shows how much further-away Jupiter was. Yet, it's still much bigger than Earth in that picture. Pretty cool.

 

[Blitzvogel]

Here's one of my recent favorite images in regards to our place in the solar system, neighborhood systems in our cluster, as well as our galaxy, and where it is located our galactic cluster. Very badass! Warning: it expands to huge proportions!

 

[Lifted]

Those moon-looking things around Jupiter: Are they stars?

[edit]
nope.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Wow, I never knew those moons were so far out from Jupiter. Shots like this make it look a lot closer.

Moon is 380,000 kilometers from Earth. Callisto is 1.9 million from Jupiter.

 

[Six]

Shopped is shopped. Cannot even make out the moons in the originals.

 

[IronWing]

I can see my house!

 

[Fritzo]

Shopped is shopped. Cannot even make out the moons in the originals.

Can you tell by the pixels?

 

[silverpig]

That's no moon...

 

[SandEagle]

That's no moon...

what about a moon from Uranus?

 

[gophins72]

very cool pic!
:thumbsup:

 

[ProfJohn]

Very cool.

Realistic example of what we would see if sitting on Mars.

But still fake due to technical limitations of the equipment.

 

[JulesMaximus]

That is very cool!

 

[Moonbeam]

Those star-looking things around Jupiter: Are they moons?

[edit]
Yup.

Not all of them. Some of them are corn chip parts I blew on the screen when I sneezed.

 

[bfdd]

Awesome

 

[Pray For Death]

Judging by the lighting on earth, it seems the sun was to the right of the camera. Earth is half-lit, yet Jupiter is fully lit as if the sun was behind the camera?

Can anyone explain this?

 

[Born2bwire]

Judging by the lighting on earth, it seems the sun was to the right of the camera. Earth is half-lit, yet Jupiter is fully lit as if the sun was behind the camera?

Can anyone explain this?

From the article in the OP:

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Those star-looking things around Jupiter: Are they moons?

That's no moon. They are space stations.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Wow, I never knew those moons were so far out from Jupiter. Shots like this make it look a lot closer.

Moon is 380,000 kilometers from Earth. Callisto is 1.9 million from Jupiter.

Jupiter is big. Throws off your perspective...

Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, DominionSeraph. These are very small; those are far away...

 

[DominionSeraph]

Jupiter is big. Throws off your perspective...

No frame of reference is what throws off the perspective.
There's no way to tell how big those moons are in a still. No motion so no parallax.

 

[Arcadio]

You can see Jupiter and its 4 largest moons from Earth with a pair of binoculars.

 

[IronWing]

No frame of reference is what throws off the perspective.

Correct. The photographer shoulda put a lens cap in there for scale.