Monday, March 06, 2006

Really tough questions...

Satya asked with a quite a bit of frustration yesterday: "Mom, how can we say that Mercury is 'near the Sun,' if it is actually millions and millions of miles from the Sun?"

Anyone have a good way to visualize the enormity of space???

1 comment:

Sassy Pants said...

Mica,
I once saw this described. Using normal everyday items you can demonstrate the scale of the solar system.

http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html