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| A team of LA filmmakers has created the world's first scale model of the
solar system in the Black Rock desert. With the Earth the size of a
marble, the model stretches out for seven miles on a dry lakebed in
Nevada. The project was captured in a short film, titled 'To Scale: The
Solar System' |
- Based on Earth being a marble, team calculated sizes of orbits and planets
- These were represented in the desert by different size balls and lightbulbs
- They then shot time-lapse images of their cars driving around the orbits
- Project was captured in a short film, titled 'To Scale: The Solar System'
On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe,' writes Overstreet.
The group of five friends wanted to present a more accurate view of the scale of our solar system from the one seen in educational posters and textbooks.
While these models present the relative size of each planet, the distances between them is wildly inaccurate.
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