"The fireball that we rode was moving  But now we've got a new machine  Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah the freaks said  Man those cats can really swing  They got music in their solar system  They've rocked around the Milky Way  They dance around the Borealice  They're Space Truckin' everyday" — Deep Purple I work out of our office on One Market Street in San Francisco. My standup-desk is right across from our Gallery at One Market. One of our newer exhibits is called Powers of Design. It was first featured at the Technology Entertainment & Design (TED) conference last year. Powers of Design depicts the size of everything from the inconceivably small to the mind-blowingly large. I thought I'd cover the exhibit elements, one at a time, over the next two months. I started small and am working my way up. 1014 MAGNITUDE 100,000,000,000,000 m 100 Billion Kilometers The Solar System 287 Billion Kilometers It’s been said that it’s sad when someone leaves home unless they’re just going out for cookies. We are indeed leaving our neighborhood as we continue our journey, but alas not for cookies. The solar system comprises the sun (99.86% of the system’s mass) and the objects orbiting it, formed from the collapse of a molecular cloud 4.5 billion years ago. The inner planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—are primarily composed of rock and metal while the outer planets (gas giants) are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium (Jupiter and Saturn) and ices (Uranus and Neptune). Formerly the ninth planet, Pluto is now one of the five dwarf planets in the system. Thanks to Global Content Manager, Matt Tierney, for the images and text that comprise the exhibit element. This is just one of the many exhibits in the gallery at One Market in San Francisco. The gallery is open to the public on Wednesdays from 12 pm to 5 pm, and admission is free. Visit us. Previous posts on this topic include: 10-15 Protons and Neutrons 10-14 Atomic Nucleus of a Uranium Atom 10-13 Nada, Zilch, Zero, Zip 10-12 Gamma Rays 10-11 Fluorine Ion 10-10 Wavelength of Hard X-Rays 10-9 Carbon Nanotubes 10-8 Molecular Transport Nano Robot 10-7 HIV Virus 10-6 Red Blood Cells 10-5 Sand 10-4 Microelectromechanical Systems 10-3 Sonata Silicium Watch Components 10-2 Lego 10-1 Prosthetic Fairing 100 Biome Concept Car 101 Ma'erkang Housing Reconstruction 102 Shanghai Tower 103 Bay Bridge 104 Masdar City 105 Palm Islands 106 The Moon 107 Earth 108 Jupiter 109 The Sun 1010 Distance Light Travels in 34 Seconds 1011 Distance from Jupiter to the Sun 1012 Distance from Pluto to the Sun 1013 Voyager 2 Future blog posts will cover: 1015 Cat's Eye Nebula 1016 Pillars of Creation 1017 Great Orion Nebula 1018 M15 Globular Cluster 1019 Sagitarius Dwarf Galaxy 1020 Trangulum Galaxy 1021 The Milky Way 1022 IC 1101 1023 Local Group of Galaxies 1024 The Local Supercluster 1025 3C 273 1026 Outer Limit of the Universe Measurement is alive in the lab. Go to the original post...