A group of friends has discovers an excellent way to show the tremendous size of our solar system by creating a scale model in the Nevada desert with the help of marbles and light bulbs.

After getting frustrated by pictures, portraying the distances in the solar system inaccurately, Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet decided the lone way to see a model to scale was to build it.

They went onto a dry lake bed in Black Rock desert, Nevada, and started building the solar system.

In a time span of 36 hours, they created the model. The model had working orbits animated at night using lights for creating an amazing timelapse.

The scale was based on Earth having a size of a marble, which was orbiting around a sun, which was a meter in a half in diameter, with the reality of the distances quite staggering.

Gorosh said that to build a scale model using an Earth only as big as this marble, a person needs seven miles of empty space.

Gorosh, while telling the camera why they embarked on the project, said that he wanted to capture Earth from the view of an astronaut.

Gorosh said, "There is literally not an image that adequately shows you what it actually looks like from out there [space]. We are on marble floating in the middle of nothing, when you sort of come face to face with that, it's staggering".

Gorosh and Overstreet's friends on being asked why they volunteered for the project, they gave less scientific reasons.