Scale model of solar system built in Nevada desert

“To create a scale model with an Earth only as big as this marble, you need seven miles (11kms) of empty space“, Gorosh said.

“The best way to see a scale model of the close planetary system was to manufacture one”, clarified science movie producer, taking note of the limitless separations between planets.

“Every single picture of the solar system that we ever encounter is not to scale”, Overstreet says in the video.

Film makers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet are calling it a “true illustration of our place in the universe”.

Pointing out how traditional visual depictions of the Solar System get the sense of scale totally wrong, Overstreet and Gorosh are determined to set the record straight, making their own scale model of what the Solar System actually looks like in the middle of a dry lakebed in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

The friends used a time-lapse camera to drive each planet’s orbit with a differently-colored light to clearly show the differences.

In all actuality, Neptune is around 2.8 billion miles from the Sunday . “If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper, the planets become microscopic, and you won’t be able to see them”.

“As we got farther and farther away, the Earth diminished in size”. It took days for Apollo astronauts to reach the moon and that is our closest neighbor in the solar system.

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“That’s what I really wanted to try and capture”. “And you sort of come face-to-face with that-it’s staggering”.