It must be modified, since there’s no
Moon anddirt on lenses shown. The actual source of the image should be the following:
- A View from Huygens [2005-01-14; web-archive]It starts with the view from Huygens to the Sun in the early hours of 14 January 2005. The Earth and Moon transit across the Sun, which occurs about once every 15 years, while a central transit like this one occurs only twice per millennium.
Source [web-archive]Preview
Link: MP4The moon is there though…
The little dot on the right.
Or am i misunderstanding your comment?
Indeed, I am sorry! I’ve seen images with the Moon on the left, following Earth only!
But how is that possible? What is the actual source then?Good question. Tineye doesnt even try to find a source because its “too generic” and google finds a bunch of similar but slightly different images.
It could have just been horizontally flipped too.
EDIT: actually google found this shitter post from yesterday: https://xcancel.com/JPMajor/status/2053945162301157821
The post title was: “A reminder of the actual size of the Sun in scale comparison to Earth.” so im pretty sure thats where OP got it from.
The poster credited it to himself (bottom right). His account description reads “Space exploration aficionado and occasional NASA image processor.”
Thank you… Indeed, another “fact”, considering the OP/Community name…
These are the times… the times of the sad/sorrowful huge flow of irresponsible and disrespectful attitude towards actual authors, transparency, and truth in information…
sun has 2·10³⁰ kg, earth has 6·10²⁴ kg
roughly 10⁶ mass difference, volume is cubic to diameter, therefore roughly 100× diameter difference
Just a heads up, that is not a speck of dust, that is the Earth.
