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

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert.

Get your scrolling hand ready. An interactive web page has created a scale model of the solar system, where the moon is the size of just one pixel.

A still image from a video produced by the To Scale Series shows a model of the solar system in which planets orbit the sun on a dry lakebed in Nevada.

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.

Kevin McCartney, the Maine Solar System Model Coordinator said: “There’s lots and lots of solar system models out there. A lot of them are not quite accurately done. These are all to scale and ...