Have you ever wondered what the rings of Saturn would look like if you were standing on it’s surface? Well that’s just silly, you can’t stand on Saturn because it’s made of gas. But you can stand on the earth and imagine what it rings would look like.

In this video, we see what rings would look like from the surface of earth.  This was created by a guy named Roy Prol, and he didn’t just slap rings in the background of images from around the world.  He actually calculated how the rings would look if you were standing in a particular spot on our globe.  He also uses a 3D rendering of the earth to help put it in perspective.

This is a cool concept, and it’s creator even takes into account what the rings would look like at night, considering they would still reflect light. Blogger Emily Lakdawalla, over at the planetary society, points out that it would be cool to see how the rings appeared in the winter hemisphere; the rings would eclipse the sun, showing large black swoops through a starry sky.

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