Speaking of web pages showing scale (OK, it was almost two weeks ago, but still cool), BABloggee Mike Sperry reminded me of this site which shows the solar system to scale... all on one web page! The Sun is displayed when you go to the page, and you can scroll to the right to see the planets, drawn in scale both in size and distance. The Sun is about 560 pixels wide, putting Pluto something like 2 million pixels to the right. And some people wonder why it'll take the New Horizons mission 9 years to get to Pluto...
Scale the solar system
Discover incredible web pages showing the solar system to scale, from the Sun to distant Pluto, and the journey of the New Horizons mission.
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