Video Shows Solar System across 50 Square Miles of Black Rock Desert

LA filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh have created the world’s first 7-mile-wide scale model of the solar system in the Black Rock desert.

The result is an incredible model of our solar system that will make you feel somewhat insignificant yet very appreciative to know we are apart of a truly attractive universe. Click on the link, for the pictorial explanation of solar system scale model. “Finally, it shrank to the size of a marble, the most lovely marble you can imagine”.

The friends said they created the model in a time sane of 36 hours.

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

Scroll down to see how they did it. “There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there”. All lies. Such representations simply can’t capture the astonishing distances involved, Overstreet said. In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble. They hooked the planets as much as lights, and at night time they went to the highest of a close-by mountain to seize video of the lit planets as they accomplished their orbits.

The pair used a big balloon to create a scale-sized sun, and then used vehicle to drive the orbits of each of the eight planets in our solar system. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is just about the size of a cantaloupe and the Earth is comparable to the size of a marble. “When you sort of come face-to-face with that, it’s staggering”.