Aroostook County Solar System

Over Thanksgiving, I went to Anna's house up in Houlton, ME, a.k.a. Canada. But, one cool thing about Aroostook County is their model solar system. A professor at University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) designed a to-scale model of the solar system- each planet is the size it would be in relation to the others, and is exactly the distance it would be from the sun (in this case, one AU equaled 1 mile). And so, Anna and I drove to all the planets and took pictures. Duh.

The cross-section of the Sun.

Mercury

Venus.

Earth and the moon.

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune.

Little baby Pluto.

So, if you're ever up in The County, drive up Route 1 and find all the planets. It's a pretty fun challenge!