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This is how Earth would look like with a ring and a second asteroid like moon! Apart from the daily deadly metor showers, it would be a pretty nice sight! I made it as realistic as i could!
It is possible that some point in time, Earth actually had a ring! About 4.5 billion years ago, the young Earth probably collided with an another planet called Theia. This collision destroyed both planet, but the debris eventually came together and formed Earth and the moon. Until the moon formed out, we probably had a massive ring system.

The above picture is also possible. If a large comet hits the moon it can send a lot of dust particles into orbit. Of course it would be devastating, but pretty.
Technical details: Continent and clouds maps from NASA. I converted the black and white cloud map to alpha channel and applied it to a white sphere, slightly larger than the earth one, so it can cast a shadow and still look realistic. Earth is a smaller sphere with two layers. Tha base is the ocean one. Its a deep blue colored layer with water's reflective properities. The top layer is the continent map with an alpha channel map for the oceans. The rings where originaly made with PS, than i imported it as a 2D plane into the render. The asteroid is made with high quality crater fractal displacement mapping. Atmosphere is made in PS, but the final image is pretty much as it come out of Vue!

Update: I fixed the phase of the moon.

Description
This is how Earth would look like with a ring and a second asteroid like moon! Apart from the daily deadly metor showers, it would be a pretty nice sight! I made it as realistic as i could!
It is possible that some point in time, Earth actually had a ring! About 4.5 billion years ago, the young Earth probably collided with an another planet called Theia. This collision destroyed both planet, but the debris eventually came together and formed Earth and the moon. Until the moon formed out, we probably had a massive ring system.

The above picture is also possible. If a large comet hits the moon it can send a lot of dust particles into orbit. Of course it would be devastating, but pretty.
Technical details: Continent and clouds maps from NASA. I converted the black and white cloud map to alpha channel and applied it to a white sphere, slightly larger than the earth one, so it can cast a shadow and still look realistic. Earth is a smaller sphere with two layers. Tha base is the ocean one. Its a deep blue colored layer with water's reflective properities. The top layer is the continent map with an alpha channel map for the oceans. The rings where originaly made with PS, than i imported it as a 2D plane into the render. The asteroid is made with high quality crater fractal displacement mapping. Atmosphere is made in PS, but the final image is pretty much as it come out of Vue!

Update: I fixed the phase of the moon.