McNess's artist seems uninterested in presenting realistic depictions of the objects in space relative to their true position to the sun.

Okay, if I tilt Saturn just so, I won't have to draw the rays going through the rings. No one will notice.

Unfortunately, my friend, we did. It looks odd. You knew it looked odd. In the end you didn't care, because you thought people would be too horrified by South America to notice anything else.