Visualizing the relative size of the planet's orbits

Scale model of planetary orbits drawn in the desert

Most diagrams of the solar system crowd the planets together. Filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh built a true scale model on a dry lakebed in Nevada: with Earth the size of a marble, the orbits needed seven miles (about 11 km) of desert.

via Every solar system image you've ever seen is wrong. Till now | National Geographic

Wednesday October 21st 2015