I love this video.  Totally worth the watch. It shows us how grand our solar system is and how small and far away we are from things.  It’s one thing to see illustrations or graphics of the planets in order, but they are never to scale, and it’s another to actually get a justifiable perspective.

Things that made my mind go “wow”:

• It takes about seven miles of empty space to get this time-lapse video perspective when the Earth is just the size of a marble, and it’s a beautiful time-lapse that has to be filmed from on top of a mountain.  Note: Pluto ain’t’ included.
• If the Earth was the size of a marble, that would make the moon almost an arm’s length away.  With the Earth that small, imagine how small a human would be. So when you consider that men actually walked on that thing and returned safely, it’s an amazing accomplishment.
• If the sun was about a meter-and-a-half wide, that puts a marbled-sized Earth 176 meters or 579 feet away  Here’s another way to look at it, stand almost two football fields away (193 yards) and look at a meter-and-a-half wide object.  Now contemplate how much heat that meter-and-a-half size object has to radiate for you to feel it.
• If you can spot a meter-and-a-half wide object from about three-and-a-half miles away, that’s how the sun would look from Neptune.

This is one of the videos where you need to view it in full screen to really appreciate it, and even though it’s seven minutes, it goes by quickly.

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.