The BBC has an infographic How big is our own solar system? . It took me a second to get oriented. The earth is at the top and as you scroll down it's distance from the earth. What confused me is that the first images (of a plane, a parachute and a skydiver) are all oriented as if the earth were at the bottom.
But as you scroll down it becomes apparent that this is the correct way to do it. You have to scroll further and further to see things like satellites, space missions and planets. There's always something on the screen and there are change of scale markers that are mostly effective and the background color changes slowly as you scroll increasing the sense of distance. Nicely done.
(via grahams)
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