HONG KONG: According to NYC Today, a couple of filmmakers by the name of Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet made the first to-scale model of the Solar system’s 7-mile scale model in Nevada.
In this model, the size of Mercury is 224 feet, Venus has 447 feet and Earth is 579 feet away from the Sun. They scaled the planets from Mercury to Neptune, with Pluto not being included. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are 0.57 miles, 1.1 miles, 2.1 miles and 3.5 miles away from the sun. “The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one,” said Overstreet, one of the creators of model. This scale model is the first of its kind that illustrates the actual distance of each planet from one another and their true sizes.
The lake bed in Nevada was a necessary tool in helping the creators build the model. The team traced every orbit of planets through their cars, drove the cars around the desert to mark each orbit of the planets and installed LED lights to glass spheres to represent the scale size of each planet.
The scale begins from the Globe Arena building in Stockholm and stretches throughout the country. “My mind was blown, that was my experience working on it as well,” said Alex Garosh in a response to the comments in their video.
Scientific experts have said that the solar system was formed from giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. After the nebula collapsed under its own gravity, it spun faster and become a flattened disk. Most of the cosmic objects were pulled at the center to form the sun, which is the core of solar system.
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