A group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits on a dry lakebed in Nevada.
Film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh.
Originally published by Cosmos as The solar system built to scale on a dry lakebed in Nevada
Bill Condie
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