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What Landscape Photos Would Look Like if Earth Had a Ring Like Saturn’s

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    locum-motion
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    Would the rings be around the equator?
    And therefore, would we only see them from here looking south?
    Or would we see them at all from this latitude?


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    Rubeter
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    locum-motion wrote: »
    Would the rings be around the equator?
    And therefore, would we only see them from here looking south?
    Or would we see them at all from this latitude?
    View here from the latitude of Dublin, day and night.

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    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I wonder if in the dim and distant past or the far flung future if the earth had or will have rings?

    I wonder what the solar accretion disc would have looked like from here too?


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    coylemj
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    From the equator the rings would appear as a narrow band across the sky through the zenith as the rings would be edge-on. The lighting effect would be interesting at the equinoxes when the Sun would shine directly through the ring plane.


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