rudy wrote: > solar flare last monday, a really big one -- > http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=5956 > > this picture blows my mind -- > http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/Sun_and_earth.jpg > juxtaposed image of earth to scale > > it's not like i didn't know the relative sizes already, being a space buff, > but the picture is still amazing more than just the size of the planets, the distances between the planets and the sun always seemed to me to be impossible to communicate. the distances are just /so/ vast. paper books have a difficult time conveying the distances simply because of the resolution. but i bet (no pressure rudy!) rudy has a good link for conveying the distances. ;-) - Joe <http://artlung.com/>
