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Located at the Sciencenter, the Sciencenter Sagan Planet Walk is a walkable scale model of the entire Solar System with both planet sizes and the distances between them scaled down to one five billionths of their actual size. The 1,200-meter, 1:5 billion, a scale model was built in 1997 as a memorial to Ithaca resident and astronomer Carl Sagan. Visitors begin an out-of-this-world journey starting at the downtown Ithaca Commons with the Sun station and ending at the station representing Pluto, the dwarf planet, which is located at the Sciencenter. Information plaques share interesting facts such as it rains strong sulfuric acid on Venus, the sunny side of Mercury is hotter than a pizza oven, and that 248 Earth years make one year on Pluto.

Address: Sciencenter Sagan Planet Walk, 601 1st St, 14850-3507 Ithaca, NY, Phone: 607-272-0600

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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