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Those are called transits and occlusions. Very dull and quite frequent. And gas giants don't have a fixed surface you can stand on. I guess you could find th
by keenerd 13y ago
Those are called transits and occlusions. Very dull and quite frequent.
And gas giants don't have a fixed surface you can stand on. I guess you could find the optimal distance to hover in your space ship to see an eclipse, assuming it is above the cloud layer. But where is the novelty in that?
Plus the sun is much less impressive way out there. Jupiter is 5 times further (Sun appears 0.04 the size). Saturn is 9.5 AU and so the Sun appears 0.011 the size.
Eclipses are still not likely just because you have a bunch of moons. Usually moons will orbit on the planet's plane of orbit. The Earth-Moon system (being more of a binary planet relationship) orbits on the solar plane instead of around the Earth's tilted equator, meaning the Sun/Moon/Earth is vastly more likely to be in alignment for an eclipse.