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I just hung up a mobile of our solar system in the rocket room… and I find it a bit bothersome that neither the relative sizes of the planets, nor their distances are properly to scale. Like most teaching resources, it’s very misleading.
But, it’s also near-impossible to represent accurately. Here’s a demo done right, out in the Black Rock Desert, with Earth being the size of a blue marble… and it needs seven miles of empty space!
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