How big would jupiter appear to be if you were in a spacewalk around saturn?

Answer 1

As others have pointed out, Jupiter at its closest would appear about the same size from Saturn as from Earth. However, the distance between Jupiter and Saturn varies much more than the distance between Jupter and Earth. For Jupter and Earth, the distance varies from about 4.2AU to about 6.2AU. For Jupiter and Saturn, it varies from about 4.2AU to about 13.6AU.

Because of this, Jupiter would appear smaller from Saturn than it does from Earth most of the time.

Answer 2

This is what I found. We are 1 A.U. (astronomical unit) from the sun or approximately 93 million miles. Jupiter is 5.2 A.U. and Saturn is 9.4 A.U. so the distance between Jupiter and the Earth is essentially the same as it is from Jupiter to Saturn.
Given this information I would say that Jupiter would appear to be about the same size as viewed from Earth.
Looking at what math... wrote his answer is the better . I overlooked the fact that we are not in the center of the solar system.

Answer 3

Answer: not very.

Once you get out to the giant planets, the distance between them expands as well. Saturn is nearly twice as far from the Sun as Jupiter is. It's closest approach is barely any closer to Jupiter than Earth gets. With the unaided eye jupiter would appear as a bright star-like object, just as it does from here.

The most noticeable effect, if you're there long enough, will be the variation in size over its orbit due to the much greater difference between closest approach and furthest pass. From Earth, Jupiter varies in size when seen through a telescope from 50.1 arcseconds at its closest to 30.4 at its farthest. On Saturn the variation is between 54.9 arcseconds and 12.7 arcseconds.

Answer 4

Distance from Earth to Sun: 149,597,890 km
Distance from Jupiter to Sun: 778,412,020 km
Distance from Saturn to Sun: 1,426,725,400 km


Using those numbers, we get:

Distance from Earth to Jupiter: 628,814,130 km
Distance from Saturn to Jupiter: 648,313,380 km

In other words, it would appear almost identical in size as it does from Earth. Only MINUTELY smaller...certainly not perceptable by a telescope, let alone the naked eye.

Answer 5

Jupiter would be 0.0126 degrees in "size" as viewed from Saturn

Answer 6

yep Jupiter is a very big planet and the giant spot which we most probably found and can be seen easily see it so big that i can a body which is 3times the earth size!!!!!
so u could have by now got the idea how big Jupiter is !!!!!!!!!


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