It looks really cool and all but with how the light is hitting the right/backwards side of saturn, shouldn’t there be a shadow on the rings on the left/forward side?
Yep, good eye. But also, now that we’ve seen Titan up close we know we wouldn’t be able to see any celestial bodies from the ground.
One thing that I can’t help but notice with all space art is that the parent planet is always in this horizontal orientation, which would imply that the viewer is standing on or near one of the poles (assuming the moon has a normal tilt). I can’t recall seeing a single piece with rings/gas bands vertically oriented, or even close to it. It’s always this way. Not that it looks bad, but I would love for some artist(s) to really lean into realism for their work.
Another thing to quickly mention is that some artists completely ignore the Roche limit and just throw several moons right in there, which is just silly.
Anyway I love this piece. It’s one of countless many that really captured my imagination and fostered my love for space as a child.
Someone’s gotta dig up Chesley and demand he repaint this thing.
Can you imagine seeing something like that in person? One can dream…
Wouldn’t see shit from the surface of Titan.
