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NASA Eyes lets you explore a simulation of the whole Solar System and beyond, all completely to scale, including NASA spacecraft, past and present, as well as discovered exoplanets. Night Sky Network "Worlds of the Solar System" is the source of the Planets to Scale. PDF.
- A Scale Model of the Solar System - NASA
Purpose: Construct a scale model of the solar system to...
- Student Project: Make a Scale Solar System | NASA/JPL Edu
Solar System Sizes and Distances reference guide – download...
- A Scale Model of the Solar System - NASA
This data will allow you to make a scale model of the solar system. For younger students, do a distance-only model. For older students, you might want to scale the size of the planets to the same scale as for the distances.
Although we could print the planet sizes to scale, the paper would need to be way too large to show the scaled distances. Instead, to help you understand the sizes and distances of our solar system, we’ve created a scale model. Our Solar System, real imagery but not to scale.
Purpose: Construct a scale model of the solar system to familiarize the student with the relative sizes and positions of the planets in the solar system and the vast distances between them and between the Sun and other stars. A convenient scale has 1 foot representing 1 million miles.
• Talk about what a solar system model that demonstrates the relative average distances between the planets and the Sun and the relative sizes of the planets would look like. Save your Solar System Statistics cards for future activities.
Solar System Sizes and Distances reference guide – download PDF. Solar System Trading Cards. 2. Decide what kind of model you want to build. Decide if you want your model to show scale planet sizes or the scale distances between planets. You can combine a planet-size model of one scale with a distance model of another scale.
Sun is scaled one meter (39") in diameter. Actual Size of Sun: 1,391,000 km (864,000 mi) AU (“Astronomical Unit”) is the average distance between the Sun and Earth: 150 million km (93 million mi) A little more than 100 Sun diameters will span the distance of one AU.