To Scale: The Solar System
Filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh ventured to Black Rock Desert in Nevada to show what our planetary neighborhood really looks like.
Across seven miles of barren wasteland, they built a scale model of the solar system, using small lights
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To Scale: The Solar System
Filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh ventured to Black Rock Desert in Nevada to show what our planetary neighborhood really looks like.
Across seven miles of barren wasteland, they built a scale model of the solar system, using small lights
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On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
Filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh ventured to Black Rock Desert in Nevada to show what our planetary neighborhood really looks like.
Across seven miles of barren wasteland, they built a scale model of the solar system, using small lights to represent each planet.
Even on that seemingly vast scale, earth was just the size of a marble.
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