Scientists Make Model Solar System To Scale In The Desert

When looking at pictures of our solar system, it appears that the planets are all one big happy family living close together. But in reality, they couldn’t be farther apart. To demonstrate just how far and spread out the planets in our system are, To Scale: demonstrates what it should actually look like to proper scale in a dry lake-bed in Nevada.

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