Solar System Model From a Drone's View

I heart space but sometimes it can be hard to comprehend. I try to fix that in this video with junk you can find lying around your house. Also, if you’ve wondered how there could be a ninth planet that we’ve never noticed till now I try to clear that up too by demonstrating just how impossibly far away it is.

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I make videos like this once a month all year long while supplies last:

[Jayce_]

Imagine going out on a jog around your neighborhood and seeing a cone labeled Uranus with a tiny pea

[arxe_d]

“We are gonna scale the solar system on this football field.”

(walks 17 miles away)

[FuzzyPuppet]

This is one of the best produced videos I've ever seen on YouTube.

[Zykth]

I've been hearing about a theoretical ninth planet for a long time, and always wondered why they couldn't definitively prove it's existence. This video put it into perspective better than any source I've seen.

[itzssssaaam]

Props to the camera man who has to fly in some shots

[thathsaraamarasinghe]

Can we just appreciate the editing skill it must have taken to mark all those planets with trackers and animate the orbits and put together all the drone footage, audio and everything?

[samxyx]

One time I missed a day of highschool so my science teacher made me stay late the next day to complete yesterdays activity. I spent 2 hours alone pulling a string across the schools longest hallway to represent how far apart the planets were and then counting the floor tiles in between to calculate the distance. I never forgave him.

[Dimaz]

I'm more amazed by how powerful the Sun's gravity at that scale

[emac]

I only just recently discovered this channel and am devouring it, however I have to say this video stands out. This is one of the best videos I can remember seeing in YouTube or anywhere for that matter. From the content (obviously) to the editing, music, animations, script, all of it. Even the sponsor moment is tastefully done. If this comment ever makes it to you Mark, as I'm sure you are aware you should be truly proud of you and whoever makes up your team's talent. Thank you for all the hard work.

[itsmrchimp]

teacher: puts a picture of Jupiter on the board
"what planet is this?"
me: "it is grape"

[chikinnugggets]

teacher: ok, who can answer this question: how far away is the earth from the sun?

me, an intellectual: 26 yards

[lorriecarrel]

This was the best presentation of solar system scale I've seen hands down

[notcash]

Finally a measurement I can understand, football fields, thank you

[hamzahelshwike]

this video reminded me of my interest for astronomy

[MarioRibBB]

Americans: Oh ok i get it now


Everyone else in the world: WTF is a yard?!

[nomisukeindustries]

Coming back to this after seeing the photos from JWST, it's amazing to me that Mark Rober used almost identical terminology six years ago to explain how many stars there are in the universe as they did just a few weeks ago.

[ek]

It’s insane how this soccer ball can affect a pea 17 miles away.

[CasperUK]

Douglas Adams put it best I think..."Space is big. Really big."

[indeediam]

How on Earth did such a talented man leave NASA for YouTube

[robertart]

Finally, a great visual concept. Thank you, Mark!