Why does the Sun look so Huge and Earth so small?

Question

http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/MEDIUM/GPN-2000-001137.jpg

Earth is about 4X the size of our moon but in this picture it looks like our moon does from Earth.

in this NASA photo the sun looks larger than it does through our atmosphere on Earth at Sunset

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-134-20411HR.jpg

Answer 1

the sun is a lot bigger then the earth....the position of the camera can also alter your perspective...if the earth is in front and the sun in the background it may appear as though the earth is larger

Answer 2

Its a different perspective

Answer 3

Its because of how far away we are

Answer 4

...cause the earth is smaller than the sun...

Answer 5

Different atmospheres im guessing... that's the only reasonable explaination i can think of.

Answer 6

The 1st picture i think the possibly is that it is fake...>_<...the 2nd picture possibly the reflections or solar flare got bigger because it direct on to the camera.....^_^

Answer 7

if the sun was a basketball, Earth would be the head of a pin in comparison

Answer 8

www.wikipedia  it will tell you

Answer 9

Because those pictures were taken on the moon which is not in the same place as the earth. DUHH!

Answer 10

Because they are.

Answer 11

The sun is a beach ball compared to the earth, which is a grain of sand...

It also depends on the angle and perspective of the photo.

The earth is a SMALL planet in general... EVERYTHING is bigger then the earth... Jupiter is like what? 400X the size of earth? Something like that...

I remember back in the 90's when that comet hit Jupiter or Saturn and just the BRUISE that a chunk of comet caused could hold 6 earth's...

We are VERY tiny... VERY VERY VERY tiny...  

Answer 12

because the sun is millions of miles away from us plus we only see a certain distance is just called  object perspective

Answer 13

because youre looking form the MOON

its a different distance, so its going to look differnet, and a differnet atmosphere

Answer 14

distance

perspective

Answer 15

hello!!'

theres a thing called distance!!

ok havent you ever put one hand infront of you and the other one farther??

which hand is bigger??!

none so the farther the smaller it seems.

and plus the sun is a millon times bigger than earth and you can still have space to fit in the sun

Answer 16

The sun is really huge compared to the earth.

Answer 17

It is because the sun is full of air and the earth is not.that is just the way it is for everyone.Even scientists try to figure it out. It can't change.

Answer 18

because those pictures were taken in a hollywood studio!!

Answer 19

Well, first the sun really is much, much, much larger than the earth, but in reference to the photos the image of the sun is way over exposed, so it seems much larger in the photo.  If you were on the moon's surface the earth would actually look bigger than the sun, due to it being much closer.

Answer 20

I think its all about the positions of the planets

Answer 21

actually its becos the sun is vv distant from the earth so it appears as such.Similarly from the moon the earth is far away but since it is not as far is the sun is from earth thus the earth appears larger than the sun from moon than at earth

Answer 22

There are two ways to think about the size of the earth with respect to the sun.

First, the Sun's diameter is about 100 times that of the Earth. So, you'd have to line up 100 Earth's end-to-end to stretch across the face of the sun.

The second way to think about it is your question: how many Earth's would fit inside the sun. Imagine the you had a big, round, fish-bowl and a bunch of marbles. Now imagine that the diameter of the fish bowl was 100x the diameter of the each marble. That way, 100 marbles would stretch end to end across the fish bowl. Now, how many marbles will fit in the fish bowl? This is like asking your question about the Earth and the Sun.

As it turns out, we can stretch the marbles across the fish bowl in three directions, up/down, in/out and left/right, and everywhere in between. So,to fill the bowl we would need 100x100x100 = 1,000,000 marbles. Or, about 1,000,000 Earths would fit inside the sun.

Answer 23

The sun is many many many times bigger than earth.

"The Sun is HUGE! Even though it looks small in the sky it is actually bigger than you might imagine. It only looks small because it is 93 million miles away. (That's about 150 million km.) The Earth is very tiny compared to the Sun. In fact, if you think of the Sun as a basketball, the Earth would only be the size of the head of a pin -- a mere speck.

The Earth is about 13 thousand kilometers (8000 miles) wide, whereas the Sun is roughly 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) across. This means it would take more than 100 Earths to span the width of the Sun! If the Sun were a hollow ball, you could fit about one million Earths inside of it! "

http://www.hao.ucar.edu/Public/education...

Answer 24

Depends were your looking from mate.

Answer 25

Because the sun really is HUGE and the earth really is SMALL. Devastating, I know! =D

Check the positions and angles of the celestial bodies in the picture, it explains a lot.

Answer 26

1.the distance are huge! {what is closer is looks bigger}...

2.this photo is not real and men never been on the moon o.k i will show you...

"How can the flag be fluttering?" the 47 year old American kept asking himself when there's no wind on the atmosphere free Moon? That moment was to be the beginning of an incredible Space odyssey for the self- taught engineer from New Jersey.

John Mauldin, a physicist who works for NASA, once said shielding at least two meters thick would be needed. Yet the walls of the Lunar Landers which took astronauts from the spaceship to the moons surface were, said NASA, about the thickness of heavy duty aluminum foil.

How could that stop this deadly radiation? And if the astronauts were protected by their space suits, why didn't rescue workers use such protective gear at the Chernobyl meltdown, which released only a fraction of the dose astronauts would encounter?  Not one Apollo astronaut ever contracted cancer - not even the Apollo 16 crew who were on their way to the Moon when a big flare started. "They should have been fried", says Rene.

Several years after NASA claimed its first Moon landing, Buzz Aldrin "the second man on the Moon" was asked at a banquet what it felt like to step on to the lunar surface. Aldrin staggered to his feet and left the room crying uncontrollably. It would not be the last time he did this. "It strikes me he's suffering from trying to live out a very big lie," says Rene. Aldrin may also fear for his life.

Virgil Grissom, a NASA astronaut who baited the Apollo program, was due to pilot Apollo 1 as part of the landings build up. In January 1967, he hung a lemon on his Apollo capsule (in the US, unroadworthy cars are called lemons) and told his wife Betty: "If there is ever a serious accident in the space program, it's likely to be me."

Nobody knows what fuelled his fears, but by the end of the month he and his two co-pilots were dead, burnt to death during a test run when their capsule, pumped full of high pressure pure oxygen, exploded.

Scientists couldn't believe NASA's carelessness - even a chemistry students in high school know high pressure oxygen is extremely explosive. In fact, before the first manned Apollo fight even cleared the launch pad, a total of 11 would be astronauts were dead. Apart from the three who were incinerated, seven died in plane crashes and one in a car smash. Now this is

a spectacular accident rate.

"One wonders if these 'accidents' weren't NASA's way of correcting mistakes," says Rene.  "Of saying that some of these men didn't have the sort of 'right stuff' they were looking."

NASA wont respond to any of these claims, their press office will only say that the Moon landings happened and the pictures are real. But a NASA public affairs officer called Julian Scheer once delighted 200 guests at a private party with footage of astronauts apparently on a landscape. It had been made on a mission film set and was identical to what NASA claimed was they real lunar landscape.  "The purpose of this film," Scheer told the enthralled  group, "is to indicate that you really can fake things on the ground, almost to the point of deception."  He then invited his audience to "Come to your own decision about whether or not man actually did walk on the Moon."

A sudden attack of honesty? You bet, says Rene, who claims the only real thing about the Apollo missions were the lift offs.  "The astronauts simply have to be on board,"  he says, "in case the rocket exploded.  It was the easiest way to ensure NASA wasn't left with three astronauts who ought to be dead."  he claims, adding that they came down a day or so later, out of the

public eye (global surveillance wasn't what it is now) and into the safe hands of NASA officials, who whisked them off to prepare for the big day a week later.

And now NASA is planning another giant step - Project Outreach, a 1 trillion dollar manned mission to Mars. "Think what they'll be able to mock up with today's computer graphics," says Rene Chillingly.  "Special effects was in its infancy in the 60s. This time round will have no way of determining the truth."

that what scientists say... look here:

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm

http://www.moonmovie.com/ and on the moon movie go to 9 min and listen...

Well, if you still believe that the men was on the moon i cant jugde and change you thinking.

hope this helped,:)