Today after lunch we put on our walking shoes and warm coats, and headed off for Neptune. No space shuttle was required because we shrunk the whole solar system down to a more manageable size.
The Sun’s actual diameter is 1,391,980 km, but for this demonstration we used a 20cm playground ball. In the video it is very hard to see Mercury, Mars, and Pluto because they are all being represented by the head of a pin.
Our walk helped us to imagine just how enormous our solar system actually is!