So Overstreet and his partner, Alex Gorosh, decided to build a model that would accurately represent what the solar system actually looks like.

Their first project, To Scale: The Solar System, spanned seven miles in a dry lakebed in the Nevada desert in 2015.

We spent the time to research and plan our own installation, and it'll help you make the right decisions when you build out your own system.

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In just 36 hours, two filmmakers built the solar system to scale in the Nevada desert.

NASA's New Horizons mission has sparked a renewed interest in all things space. It also likely inspired a couple of filmmakers to dispel a common myth and build a scale model of our solar system ...

Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the latest additions to the Maine Solar System Model, billed as the largest solar system model in the western hemisphere.