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You can now explore 3D models of planets, moons and spacecraft from your phone thanks to a new partnership between NASA and Google.
Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger.
A new project by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh sought to explain just how vast our local neighbourhood of planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets really is, by building the first scale ...
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...
A to-scale, 1-mile-long model of the solar system that is 4.5 billion times smaller than the actual system lines the West Woodruff Avenue sidewalk.
Still from "To Scale: The Solar System," a 7-minute video that shows the construction of a scale-model solar system in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. (Image credit: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh) ...
Using a dry lake bed in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, the duo built their solar system model complete with planetary orbits. The project really puts into perspective just how tiny our home ...