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 ...

The premise is simple: to build a solar system model to scale. The result, done on an empty 7-mile stretch on a dry lakebed in Nevada, is just awesome. Wylie Overstreet writes: ...

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.

Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model. We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...

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 ...