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ptkooistra t1_ix1lgyi wrote

It would appear roughly 7.7 times bigger than it does now.

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Nydcn77 t1_ix1mac0 wrote

Interesting. I can see the cloud bands with my cameras telephoto. I would surmise that yes you would see the bands. But not for long. Jupiter's gravity would yank our orbit all to hell.

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ScreamingNightHog t1_ix1pv2n wrote

Maybe we can balance out the gravity by putting Saturn in Venus's orbit. Haha.

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Enron55 t1_ix3twoc wrote

Ah yes a gravitational tug of war that tears the planet apart

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Fueledbyhops t1_ix3ynqd wrote

I believe it would be just a big bright star, Bigger then some. I strongly doubt we'd be able to see its actual shape like how we see the moon.

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canadian_eskimo t1_ix1l5da wrote

You could actually Google this and sifr through the results. Took me a minute or so to get a general answer:

There's even a mock up.

https://qr.ae/pvdxcs

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ScreamingNightHog t1_ix1os48 wrote

Jupiter's diameter 140,000 km
Mars diameter 6792 km
Jupiter is about 20x as wide as Mars

Mars is about 9300 arcseconds.
So Jupiter in Mars's spot would appear about 20x that, about 186,000 arcseconds

The Moon is about 1800 arcseconds, so Jupiter in Mars's spot would look about 100x as big as the Moon. That seems awfully big; I must have made a mistake.

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disagree83 t1_ix1qx6o wrote

>Mars is about 9300 arcseconds.

This is the mistake. Mars is about 25 arcseconds at its closest.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/marsfact.html

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damo251 t1_ix2pv62 wrote

And Mars will only get to 17.2arc sec this year and Jupiter gets a smigin over 50 but only 49 arc sec this year.

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Azdrubel t1_ix30zt1 wrote

That would put Jupiter at 400 arcseconds? Like holy shit, 20% of the moons visual size?!

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Xaxxon t1_ix1qiva wrote

This is simple high school math, what part are you having trouble with?

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