Teaching Scale-A Resource

Teaching scale to studated a series of images that ents can be one of the most challenging endeavors. If it were easy, we probably wouldn’t need the reminder on our car’s side view mirrors that “objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.”

Or is it further away? {gasp}

Perhaps Ron Miller can help. Miller, a space artist, computed and created a series of images of each of the planets as they would look if they were 240,000 miles away, which is the approximate distance of our moon.

Click this link to see the fascinating pictures. The Atlantic’s What the Night Sky Would Look Like If the Other Planets Were as Close as the Moon

 

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