Brad Goodspeed used After Effects to create an interesting planetary visualization. “The basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, 380,000 kms from earth.”
See his post for more details. [Via]
Great video, I am all for moving some other planets closer to our trajectory, I am sick and tired of our boring skyscape. However, this video blatantly disregards an equally real possibility: What would it look like if the Sun would orbit the earth in this distance?
No Saturn? The rings up close would be awesome…
[Ask and ye shall receive. –J.]
Sure looks like the Earth is rotating in the wrong direction…
All joking aside, where’s Uranus? It spins at close to a ninety-degree angle to the other planets!