In this solar system, Jupiter is about the size of a miniature watermelon. The sun is a small weather balloon. And the orbits, traced onto a dry lakebed, are huge.

September 17, 2015 VIDEO: Solar system model built to scale in Nevada desert Video clears up misconceptions about vast orbits ...

Two filmmakers built what might be the first-ever scale model of the Solar System in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, and it spanned seven miles.

To portray the solar system realistically, both Gorosh and Overstreet travelled to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. “We have 36 hours to measure the distances, trace out the orbits, and set up a ...

What does the Solar System look like when it's shown exactly to scale? Thanks to this awesome video, you can now find out. "To create a scale model with an Earth only as big as [a] marble you need ...

A team of LA filmmakers has created the world's first scale model of the solar system in the Black Rock desert. With the Earth the size of a marble, the model stretches out for seven miles on a ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast desert—essentially, where there's water. And it turns out that one of the most ...

BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A pair of filmmakers visited a dry lake bed in Nevada to build what they describe as the first-ever scale model of the solar system. Wylie Overstreet and ...

These guys put Earth in its place. Space enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh say they built the first-ever to-scale model of the solar system — on a 7-mile stretch of dry Nevada lakebed ...

When you think about it, just about every single photo that you find on the Internet that depicts our solar system fails to do so accurately and to scale. That’s why a group of friends have worked ...

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

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert.