The Solar System to scale – in the desert
“The only way to see a scale model of the solar system,” Wylie Overstreet says, “is to build one.” So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets’ orbits and then filming a time-lapse video from a nearby mountaintop in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
http://www.youtube.com/zR3Igc3Rhfg
via NPR