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Because they're in different orbits. Earth is closer to the sun than Mars, while Jupiter is about 5 times as distant (likely more in this photograph). Earth an
by electromagnetic 17y ago
Because they're in different orbits. Earth is closer to the sun than Mars, while Jupiter is about 5 times as distant (likely more in this photograph).
Earth and Jupiter in this photograph are likely in perpendicular positions relative to the sun.
Mars is obviously near-parallel to Earth's terminator line, so to have Jupiter in the same picture it has to run on a nearly straight line through Earth from Mars, given this distance is likely ~7AU or more, Jupiter is on a whole different angle from the sun.
Crudely drawn I believe it should be something(!) like this:
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