If Jupiter was the same distance as the Moon

Not sure how accurate the size is but it's still pretty impressive.

We'd be visiting Jupiter a whole lot more.

We would be worrying about one of Jupiters inner moons hitting our earth....

We'd most likely freeze our patooties off when the Earth transited around the back side of Jupiter....or am I spoiling the fantasy?

That would be amazing! We'd be smack in the middle of all the radiation it gives off, not sure we'd be around too long!

In first place I would think if the assumption was real, earth would be part of Jupiter due to gravitational force by now.

But more importantly, where did you steal that Jupiter from???

I would say Cassini–Huygens probe survey

Unfortunately if Jupters core was centered where the Moons core is(same distance) then Earth would be engulfed by Jupiter. So technically not that accurate. Either way though a sky like that would be amazing. I've always thought...what if our solar system happened to be on an edge of the galaxy so that we were looking down on it. The night sky would be amazing!

mrbubbles wrote in post #15753233
what if our solar system happened to be on an edge of the galaxy so that we were looking down on it.

We are aren't we. Except we look up...which is technically in in the summer and out in the winter.

mrbubbles wrote in post #15753233
Unfortunately if Jupters core was centered where the Moons core is(same distance) then Earth would be engulfed by Jupiter. So technically not that accurate.

No it wouldn't. Jupiter is big, but not that big. You may be thinking of the Sun.
The picture as shown, isn't far off the mark and looks cool.

Lol at all the scientists wanna be posts. C'mon people enjoy the picture for what it is. Who cares what jupiter's gravitational pull is and the other bs.

We would have some insane tides. Awesome job though.

Assuming we are measuring distance from earth at the center point of both the moon and Jupiter...

The moon has a radius of 1079 miles. It is on average 238,857 miles from earth.

Jupiter has a radius of 43,441 miles. If it were placed in the same position as the average position of the moon there would be 196,495 miles from the outer edge of jupiter to the the outer edge of earth. While this is significantly closer, there would still be a gap. The radiation, effects of gravity and one of it's 67 moons slamming into us would be the real concern.

I'm glad everyone likes the image However its not mine, the credit has to go to a Reddit user under the name jb2386.

bryanlee1981 wrote in post #15753962
Assuming we are measuring distance from earth at the center point of both the moon and Jupiter...

The moon has a radius of 1079 miles. It is on average 238,857 miles from earth.

Jupiter has a radius of 43,441 miles. If it were placed in the same position as the average position of the moon there would be 196,495 miles from the outer edge of jupiter to the the outer edge of earth. While this is significantly closer, there would still be a gap. The radiation, effects of gravity and one of it's 67 moons slamming into us would be the real concern.

Thank you for this! I was too lazy to look at the numbers myself.