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How big is the solar system? The grandeur of its scale can understand with a new animated video that shows that, even moving at the speed of light (which is 300 thousand kilometers in second), from the Sun to any of the planets of our system, including to Earth, you need to get quite a long time.
Such a space video was created by an artist from Los Angeles Alphonse Swinehart, and it lasts 45 minutes. Starting point of this a fascinating virtual trip – the Sun. Moving with at the aforementioned speed, viewers will reach the Earth (and Moon) in 8 minutes 20 seconds of the video. Space voyage will end after Jupiter with its moons (this will happen in the 44th minute of this video). The distance traveled, as well as the elapsed time, are indicated in the left top corner.
The author of the video admits that he allowed himself some free interpretations that relate to the location of planets, asteroids by relation to each other. However, the size of the celestial bodies and the distances between them are kept fairly accurate. Swinehart completed animation after Jupiter because I wanted the duration video did not exceed one hour. In that case, if the journey dragged on to Saturn, the viewer would need 34 extra minutes. However, this is difficult already purely psychologically – the viewer is simply tired.
Sun Solar System Jupiter
