How to Build a Seven-Mile-Wide Scale Model of the Solar System It takes three-and-a-half miles to get from the Sun to Pluto. Danny Lewis. September 21, 2015. Get our newsletter!

By the time we hit Jupiter, the solar system stretches to about 778.5 million kilometers, or in terms of this model's scale, just under a kilometer. This is where the space between planets gets ...

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is ...

To do it they had to go to a dry lakebed in Nevada, and first build a model of the inner planets to a scale of 1 astronomical unit (AU, or distance from the Sun to Earth) of 176 metres.

Overstreet and Gorosh partnered up to build and film what might be the first-ever to-scale model of the Solar System. They selected the site, a dry lakebed in the Nevada desert, and embarked on ...

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev., Sept. 17 (UPI) --A pair of filmmakers visited a dry lake bed in Nevada to build what they describe as the first-ever scale model of the solar system.Wylie Overstreet and ...

Another way is to build a scale model in the real world. Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model.

A group of friends have built the first scale model of our solar system in the expanse of the vast Nevada desert. Spanning an area of seven miles, filmmakers Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet ...

This scale model of the solar system is truly mind-boggling. September 18, 2015 More than 9 years ago. By Rachel Feltman. Did you ever build one of those scale models of the solar system as a kid?

So, they decided to build one. On a dry lakebed in Nevada, the group constructed a model by drawing circles in the desert around a 1.5 meter sun and a marble-sized Earth small enough to get lost ...

The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on the same scale of 1 to 10 billion. That is, the real objects and distances are 10 billion ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...