Still from "To Scale: The Solar System," a 7-minute video that shows the construction of a scale-model solar system in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. (Image credit: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh) ...

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 ...

In "To Scale: The Solar System" filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, along with a few of their friends, build a size-accurate model of our cosmic backyard in Nevada's Black Rock Desert ...

By the time we hit Jupiter, the solar system stretches to about 778.5 million kilometers, or in terms of this model's scale, just under a kilometer. This is where the space between planets gets ...

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 ...

Wanderers CU is a responsive sound experience delivered via a mobile app that responds to the visitor’s movement as sensed by GPS. A complement to the Colorado Scale Model Solar System represented by ...

The result is a 7-minute-long time-lapse video, "To Scale: The Solar System," that is beautiful to watch and gives a great sense of just how huge our solar system really is.

Where does the Earth really fit in space? That question and the inaccurate approaches to illustrating that led a group of friends to the Nevada desert to build a scale model of the solar system. Th… ...

To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.. These guys put Earth in its place. Space enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh say they built the first-ever to-scale model of ...

Real-world projects, such as the Warrumbungle Solar System Drive, also help scale the solar system — but of course, that makes it a bit more difficult to view the planets' relative sizes.

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, according to NASA. Jupiter’s radius is over 11 times the equatorial radius of the Earth.

It’s designed to teach kids facts about the solar system, but more importantly, the varying effects of gravity on each planet. ... But the real attraction is the $50 mat’s built-in scale.