Group uses Nevada desert to show scale of the solar system

Where does the Earth really fit in space?

“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. There, they created a scale model of the solar system.

The film opens up with this quote from Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin.

A group of friends have built the first scale model of our solar system in the expanse of the vast Nevada desert. Using a reported scale of 1 astronomical unit per 176 metres, the group leveraged seven miles of empty desert to plot the planets and etch their orbital lines into the dirt.

“There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there

,” Gorosh said.

When looking in a science textbook of the solar system, it’s easy to depict the sun, planets and moon to scale in comparison to each other.

In reality, Neptune is around 2.8 billion miles from the Sunday .

We won’t go on any further – the video is the star here.

“You can put your thumb up, and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb”.

We know what you’re thinking.

Which leads to Gorosh to close with the enormity of the project.

Gorosh, while telling the camera why they embarked on the project, said that he wanted to capture Earth from the view of an astronaut.

“We are on a marble floating in the middle of nothing”, Overstreet says.