Upon realizing that scale photos of the solar system are basically impossible to come across, a group of friends—led by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh—set out to create the ultimate planetary representation in the middle of the desert. Using a marble to represent the size of Earth, the team needed a whopping seven-mile-long area to encompass the entire orbit of Uranus—the solar system’s farthest planet. …
Friends Build a Scale Model of the Solar System in the Desert
