E. Miller, The Periods of Rotation of Mercury and Venus, and the Satellites of the Solar System, Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science, Vol. 14 (1893 - 1894), pp. 94-97 ...

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Ever wonder how differently the planets in our solar system are rotating? A planetary scientist put the best parts of the planets in a single globe animation to show just how.

In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble. Even then, seven miles of open space was needed to show the entire solar system from the Sun to Neptune (sorry, Pluto).

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.

For comparison, Jupiter in our solar system is about 4.5 billion years old. The planet, however, will not maintain these sizzling temperatures.