Handeloh: Planets Adventure Trail (barrier-free)

Do you
want to travel at 16 times the speed of light? Walk along the Planet Adventure Trail.
Start at the Sun and finish your journey after 1.2 kilometres.

On our Planet Adventure Trail you
can hike the solar system in the countryside and get to know it in a graphic
way.

It is located along the
Timmerloher Path in Handeloh in the North Heath.

The starting point of the path is
the Sun, shown as a ball of about 28cm diameter on a 3m high obelisk (see
picture). A large information panel gives a clear introduction and explains the
principle of the adventure path.

From there you can walk from planet to
planet. At the location of each planet you will find a panel with data and
images of the planet.

The solar system is represented on a scale of
1:5,000,000,000 (5 billion). This means that the length of the entire path is
about 1.2 km.

The distances of the "planets"
along the path are to scale; that is, Mercury is 11.6 metres from the Sun, Venus
21.6 metres, and so on - until finally Pluto, after 1193.2 metres, ends the
route.