Seriously cool. A Solar System timelapse film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, made to scale, created on a dry lakebed in Nevada.
Here’s the behind the scenes video:
From Scientific American:
Overstreet, Gorosh and their friends used a drone to capture aerial footage of the project. “To Scale: The Solar System” also features stunning timelapse video in which moving lights trace out the orbits of the planets on the playa. This latter footage was shot at night from a nearby mountaintop while a vehicle equipped with a bright light circled the “sun” on the playa below. Well, “equipped” is probably too fancy a word, since team member Ramsey Meyer simply held the light out the window during these long, looping drives.
“It was great fun. It was also hard work at times,” Meyer told Space.com via email. “The shooting schedule was very aggressive — a total of 36 hours in the desert, with only five people there to help — and the weather didn’t fully cooperate, being cloudier and colder than we would have liked.” Meyer said the team hopes “To Scale: The Solar System” leaves an impression beyond the eight circular tracks gouged into the dry lakebed.