What the Moon would look like if it were the same distance from Earth as the International Space Station

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That’s also what the International Space Station would look like if it were the size, shape and texture of the moon.

:smiley:

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Truly horrifying. Especially the eclipse - I could hear the creepers spawning.

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That’s not a space station, it’s a moon!

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The Moon would eventually (quickly?) be distorted & disintegrated by being inside the Roche limit.

A bonus would be a ring system around Earth.

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I also don’t see the mile high tidal waves.

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What the space-station-moon would like like if I photographed it:

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Answer: it would look fucking awesome.

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Dammit Moon Moon!

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The moon is about 3400Km in diameter, so it would be a lot closer to the earth than it’s own diameter.

If it were still tidally locked (and magically not disintegrating) I imagine there would be more of an “it’s rolling over us” feel than in that video, where the same face was always pointing at the camera rather than straight down…

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And it’d be even better if it somehow retained full brightness…just imagine a full moon of that magnitude. You’d need welding goggles just to go outside.

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Sunglasses anyway. It wouldn’t be brighter than the sun itself, unless it were some concave dish-shape, right?

Hmm. Well, with so much of the sky filled with it, it would be awfully bright.

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Just logged in to say that was AWESOME! Thanks Mark :slight_smile:

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And that video fills me with a healthy dose of both phobos and deimos.

I remember too well what eventually happened to Chewbacca.

There’s a big spoiler there for those who know no end to the mighty Wookiee.

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Wouldn’t it be shielded by the Earth most of the time? I suppose that the Earth would experience several daily eclipses as well…

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All hail Moon!
Light Go! Where is Light?
Sacrifice a virgin!
Give us light!
Oy, Light is back! Yay!
All hail Moon!

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Let’s play “spot the imgurian” :slight_smile:

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well, someone’s been reading xkcd :wink:

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Actually not really. I think the moon just appears bright because your eyes are sensitized to night. I believe the full moon is about 1/25,000th the brightness of daylight. The moon at 420km would take up ~40% of the sky, which is ~7000x larger than its normal size. So even assuming every part of the larger moon was equally radiant, you’re still only talking about a quarter the brightness of daylight, and much less concentrated in the sky…

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It’d be nice to be able to read comfortably by moonlight, but if it moved that rapidly across the sky it would be awfully distracting.

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