The result is an incredible model of our solar system that will make you feel somewhat insignificant yet very appreciative to know we are apart of a truly lovely universe.

LA-based filmmakers Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, makers of the scale model said that after getting frustrated by pictures, portraying the distances in the solar system inaccurately they decided that the only way to see a model is by actually building it. It is explained at the beginning of the film with a quote from Apollo 15 astronaut James Irwin, who famously described the distant Earth as “the most lovely marble you can imagine”.

The guys created the solar system over the course of 36 hours and recorded the spectacular view from the top of a nearby mountain.

But in reality, the solar system is extremely vast.

From there, the team placed the planets at their relative distance from the sun, and traced each planet’s orbit around the sun in a dry lakebed using their cars.

In this image taken from the YouTube video, you can see the orbits of the inner planets to scale.

The Sun is about 4 1/12 feet in diameter in scale model.

“That is what I really wanted to try and capture”, said Overstreet. Around it they measured and drew concentric circles for their scaled-down planets: Mercury, the size of a pea, 242 feet from the sun; Earth, a marble, 579 feet; volleyball-sized Jupiter, half a mile; Saturn, a mile and change; Neptune, 3 and half miles.