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Jupiter on the opposite side of the solar system to Earth

Orion402 · 2022-03-09 10:05:52

The new James Webb solar system viewer is brilliant for putting the relationship of the faster moving Earth and the slower moving Jupiter to the stationary/central Sun in context- The reason Jupiter appears to move from left to right within the range of the C3 camera tracking with the Earth around the Sun is that Earth is…

09-03-2022 11:05AM

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https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/

The new James Webb solar system viewer is brilliant for putting the relationship of the faster moving Earth and the slower moving Jupiter to the stationary/central Sun in context-

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/

The reason Jupiter appears to move from left to right within the range of the C3 camera tracking with the Earth around the Sun is that Earth is moving faster than Jupiter, whereas the slower moving planet further out is really moving from right to left.
Everything to the left side of the Sun is an evening appearance as seen from the rotating surface of the Earth, everything to the right is a dawn appearance so over the last number of weeks, Jupiter has moved from an evening appearance to a soon to be dawn appearance.
Conclusions based on interpretations are far more satisfying for the observer than conclusions drawn from predictions, solar system research is a combination of both with the former given priority.

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