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A still image from a video produced by the To Scale Series shows a model of the solar system in which planets orbit the sun on a dry lakebed in Nevada.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n To Scale Series<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The only way to see a scale model of the solar system,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wylie Overstreet says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is to build one.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 orbits and then filming a time-lapse video from a nearby mountaintop in Nevada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Black Rock Desert.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every single picture of the solar system that we encounter is not to scale,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Overstreet says in a video about the project. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you put the orbits to scale on a piece of paper, the planets become microscopic, and you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to see them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Those proportions are kept honest in the scale model, in which an Earth that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only the size of a small marble calls for a solar system that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 7 miles wide. In this solar system, Jupiter is about the size of a miniature watermelon. The sun is a small weather balloon.<\/p>\n A video of the huge (but shrunken) solar system has attracted more than 400,000 views since it was posted on the To Scale Series Facebook page. A companion video shows how the model was made, with cars tracing the planets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 orbits onto a dry lakebed.<\/p>\n The goal is simple: to get a sense of how tiny our world is, in relation to space.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is really not an image that adequately shows you what it looks like from out there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Overstreet says.<\/p>\n The video blends the sublime \u00e2\u20ac\u201d filmed at night beneath a starry desert sky, the planets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 transits show how vast even our little corner of the universe is \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with the practical. In one sequence, Overstreet has to fish around for the right marble that represents Earth.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have the world in my pocket somewhere,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i A still image from a video produced by the To Scale Series shows a model of the solar system in which planets orbit the sun on a dry lakebed in Nevada. To Scale Series hide caption itoggle caption To Scale Series A still image from a video produced by the To Scale Series shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}