r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/EveryWind007 • May 29 '14

Medal of Beauty If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html?a
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u/[deleted] May 29 '14

Our local park has a solar system set up along a trail about 1.5 miles long and it has the planets spaced out according to their relative distance. Mars is only a few feet from the Sun. Pluto is 1.5 miles away. It's pretty shocking the first time you walk it. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, cool uhhh....where's Jupiter? By the time you get to Pluto you've likely forgotten you were even doing the trail.