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Pluto is 40x further from the sun than Earth. That means it gets 1/1600 (0.06%) as much sunlight as us. I know the eye can adapt a lot to low light, but I dou
by BurningFrog 1y ago
Pluto is 40x further from the sun than Earth.
That means it gets 1/1600 (0.06%) as much sunlight as us.
I know the eye can adapt a lot to low light, but I doubt Pluto would look anywhere as bright to a human traveller as the video shows.
- nahkoots 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude#List_of_apparent_magnitudes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude#List_of_app... The sun on Pluto is only slightly dimmer than the sun on a very strongly overcast midday on Earth (about half as bright), but still much brighter (almost 200x) than a full moon.
- BurningFrog 1y agoThanks. That's better than I expected. I'm now more optimistic for settling Jupiter's moons!