World’s first 7-mile scale model of Solar System built in Nevada!

But even on a lesser scale, the moon is almost 240,000 miles from the planet.

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

A group of friends in Nevada claims they have developed an extraordinary way to show what the size of our solar system is. Their short video is titled, “To Scale: The Solar System“. Around it they measured and drew concentric circles for their scaled-down planets: Mercury, the size of a pea, 242 feet from the sun; Earth, a marble, 579 feet; volleyball-sized Jupiter, half a mile; Saturn, a mile and change; Neptune, 3 and half miles. Consequently, the outcome is a stunning one.

To get an idea of just how far that is, it would take about 4 hours to reach the furthest planet from the sun at the speed of light.

But it doesn’t end here.

Where do you go if you want to build a scale model that accurately captures the solar system in all of its humbling emptiness?

“The difference they’re illustrating here is that they’re drawing the whole circular orbits, not just screening the distances separating them”. “That’s what I really wanted to try to capture”.

One of the biggest of these scales is situated in Sweden, Lakdawalla stated.

Acknowledging how large the solar system is and the vast distances that separate the planets, measures what some find hard to comprehend. The Stockholm Globe Arena was to represent the sun and the planets were lined at a 20 million to one scale. That scale comprises all of the major planets and some of the minor ones alongside the moons of the solar system including Earth’s moon, Pluto, Halley’s Comet and Asteroid Eros.