Build miniature solar system in the desert

Two American filmmakers have built the solar system's microcosm in accordance with the actual size and distance ratio.

Filmmakers build miniature solar systems in the desert

According to the Huffington Post, Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh - two filmmakers from Los Angeles, the United States built a solar system model in the 129-square-kilometer vacant area of the Black Rock Desert , Neveda, USA.

Overstreet said that the Earth, Moon and planets in the solar system in Internet photos are not true to the actual scale, they are drawn too close together. If you draw the solar system onto an A4 sheet of paper, the planets will be so small that they can't be seen with the naked eye.

Solar system shrinks.

To build the model of the solar system, they used a rubber ball to represent the Sun, a light bulb instead of planets, a blue stone instead of the Earth. The miniaturized size of planets and their orbits are calculated based on the ratio of the Earth with a diameter of about 1.27cm.

Overstreet, Gorosh and the help group drive orbits the planets and set the camera to time-lapse mode on the top of the mountain to see how big they are.

"That's something I really want to try and come back. We are on a blue stone (Earth) floating in the middle of nowhere," Overstreet said in a video posted on Vimeo on September 16. t "When you face it, you will be completely taken aback."