Apple QuickTime Audio | 1994-07-17 | 2.6 MB | 1 channel | 22,050 sample rate | 2 minutes, 1 second
Transcription: Your home, the Earth, is a big place, almost 8,000 miles in diameter. But compared to the sun, 93 million miles away, it is tiny. The sun could hold a million Earths inside. And the sun is just a tiny dot at the center of the solar system, which stretches over 7 billion miles. It's kind of hard to understand all these Maybe a model would help. Do you know what a scale model is? People often use them to help make sense of things. I've made my model of the solar system by shrinking it down to human scale. Here is the sun reduced to 8 feet in diameter. I shrunk the rest of the planets in the same ...
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