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I really want to see an artist’s rendition of what this would’ve looked like from the surface.

jjtheblunt 2y ago
ask copilot or midjourney or ... ?
tiborsaas 2y ago
You are in luck :) https://www.cnet.com/culture/if-earth-had-rings-like-saturn-the-sky-would-look-like-this/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/if-earth-had-rings-like-saturn-...
- rob74 2y ago
  That doesn't look right... if the rings were around the Equator, why are they perpendicular to the surface in a picture of the US Capitol?!
  - alex_young 2y ago
    You can see a lot of the side of the rings, which means they are offset by a large distance, perhaps to the equator. Doesn't look too bad to my eye.
  - vikingerik 2y ago
    They're not perpendicular in that picture. They're foreshortened - the one dark gap in the rings is narrower towards the horizon (farther away from the observer). The view is about right - the apparent altitude of the highest point of the rings would be 90º minus your latitude, so about 52º above the horizon from DC, which is roughly what that image is showing (we can't really tell the field-of-view span angle from a single pic.) What's actually wrong is the orientation relative to the Capitol. The highest point of equatorial rings would be due south, and that's at the right edge of the image, so the center of the image is oriented so that we're looking roughly southeast. But we're looking almost directly at one wall, and the rectangular building is oriented to the cardinal directions, so that can't be southeast.
    - Aeium 2y ago
      I think it would look something like that if you were looking directly east, since the distance and the perspective would bring it to the vanishing point in the center of the image. So, from that POV, the rings would not be able to go past the center of the image. This view would still be possible if this is a cropped down section of a larger image that was pointed slightly to the left I think.
Robelius 2y ago
I recommend a video by Joe Scott[1] that explores this What If scenario. He created renders showing what rings may look like from Earth and from Space. He also went into details such as how seasons may have been impacted, or how the night sky wouldn't be as dark because of the sun's reflections. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUztyRYQ5iU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUztyRYQ5iU

ask copilot or midjourney or ... ?

You are in luck :) https://www.cnet.com/culture/if-earth-had-rings-like-saturn-the-sky-would-look-like-this/ https://www.cnet.com/culture/if-earth-had-rings-like-saturn-...

rob74 2y ago
That doesn't look right... if the rings were around the Equator, why are they perpendicular to the surface in a picture of the US Capitol?!
- alex_young 2y ago
  You can see a lot of the side of the rings, which means they are offset by a large distance, perhaps to the equator. Doesn't look too bad to my eye.
- vikingerik 2y ago
  They're not perpendicular in that picture. They're foreshortened - the one dark gap in the rings is narrower towards the horizon (farther away from the observer). The view is about right - the apparent altitude of the highest point of the rings would be 90º minus your latitude, so about 52º above the horizon from DC, which is roughly what that image is showing (we can't really tell the field-of-view span angle from a single pic.) What's actually wrong is the orientation relative to the Capitol. The highest point of equatorial rings would be due south, and that's at the right edge of the image, so the center of the image is oriented so that we're looking roughly southeast. But we're looking almost directly at one wall, and the rectangular building is oriented to the cardinal directions, so that can't be southeast.
  - Aeium 2y ago
    I think it would look something like that if you were looking directly east, since the distance and the perspective would bring it to the vanishing point in the center of the image. So, from that POV, the rings would not be able to go past the center of the image. This view would still be possible if this is a cropped down section of a larger image that was pointed slightly to the left I think.

Robelius 2y ago

I recommend a video by Joe Scott[1] that explores this What If scenario. He created renders showing what rings may look like from Earth and from Space. He also went into details such as how seasons may have been impacted, or how the night sky wouldn't be as dark because of the sun's reflections. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUztyRYQ5iU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUztyRYQ5iU