So Overstreet and his partner, Alex Gorosh, decided to build a model that would accurately represent what the solar system actually looks like.

First to-scale Solar System model built in seven miles of desert All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors.

Those proportions are kept honest in the scale model, in which an Earth that's only the size of a small marble calls for a solar system that's 7 miles wide.

A marker outside Creekwood Elementary School in Broken Arrow denotes where the asteroid belt would be in a 1-to-10 billion scale model of the solar system. Organizers and municipal leaders ...

A Toyota Prius prototype covered with 1,100 solar cells travels about 31 miles a day without charging.

A Tesla Model Y owner decided to build his own solar roof that can add over 20 miles of range to the electric SUV per day.