A Stunning Scale Model of Our Solar System, Drawn in the Desert
Video by Alex Gorosh, Wylie Overstreet / The Atlantic | 30 November 2015
A group of friends discovered there were no
proportional models of the solar system with complete planetary
orbits—most portray the planets and moons as too close together. So,
they decided to build one. On a dry lakebed in Nevada, the
group constructed a model by drawing circles in the desert around a 1.5
meter sun and a marble-sized Earth small enough to get lost in filmmaker
Wylie Overstreet's pocket. The result is a stunning work of land
art that allows viewers to see the full circle of the Earth with their
own eyes.
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