To do it they had to go to a dry lakebed in Nevada, and first build a model of the inner planets to a scale of 1 astronomical unit (AU, or distance from the Sun to Earth) of 176 metres.

2. Activity 1: Solar System Model (30 minutes) Hands-on Activity: Students will create a model of the solar system using Styrofoam balls, paint, and string.

Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model. We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...

Those proportions are kept honest in the scale model, in which an Earth that's only the size of a small marble calls for a solar system that's 7 miles wide. In this solar system, Jupiter is about ...

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“At the scale of the new model, to get to Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our solar system, you’d have to travel from Boulder to the Panama Canal.” Chancellor Philip DiStefano and other campus ...

A model of the planet Saturn stands near Route 1 in Westfield, Maine, Friday, May 9, 2003. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP File) ...

Here’s how it works. NASA is reviewing 12 proposals for its next robotic mission to explore the solar system under the agency's New Frontiers Program. (Image credit: NASA) ...