The University of Maine at Presque Isle has received a $7,500 enterprise marketing grant through the Maine Office of Tourism (MOT) Marketing Partnership Program to promote the Maine Solar System Model. The largest scale model of the solar system in the western hemisphere, and the second largest such model in the world, the Maine Solar System Model extends for nearly 100 miles along U...
Established by the University of Maine at Presque Isle and the northern Maine community the Maine Solar System Model is the second largest such model in the world.
Neptune was taken out of orbit in the Maine Solar System Model and brought to the Automotive Collision Repair Lab at NMCC, where NMCC student and part-time artist, Christian Goddard, worked on it.
After a summer “out of orbit” for re-painting, the Planet Jupiter returned to its spot in the Maine Solar System Model Friday morning.