Black Rock dessert witnesses scale model of solar system

Author and filmmaker Wylie Overstreet and his friend, filmmaker Alex Gorosh, created a scale model of the solar system, including the orbits of each planet.

Their short video is titled, ‘To Scale: The Solar System’. Overstreet stated that the only mechanism in which they could device the model of the solar system was to actually build one and thus he and his friends embarked on a mission to construct one.

Our solar system’s scale is something truly mind-boggling. 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. “There are many scale models of the solar system that exhibits the to-scale sizes of the planets in our solar system and the aloofness untying their orbits”, planetary scientist and senior editor of the Planetary Society Emily Lakdawalla informed the Mashable through the Twitter DM.

On this picture taken from the YouTube video, you’ll be able to see the orbits of the interior planets to scale.

Working by this particular scale, the sun measures about 5 feet across and this is nearly the size of a small weather balloon.

In Overstreet and Gorosh’s fantastic model, the Earth was just the size of a marble.

In the scale model Mercury, Venus and Earth are, respectively, 224 feet, 447 feet and 579 feet away from the Sunday. The team traced out the planet’s orbit and filmed their visually striking work from a nearby mountaintop.

The model also leaves out a good portion of the solar system. Entering into the farthest reaches of the scaled photo voltaic system additionally required driving in a automobile for some time.

It is not the first attempt to come up with a scale model of the solar system or the universe.

That scale begins with the vast Globe Arena building in Stockholm and expanses across the country from there.