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by DanBC 4644 days ago
It'd be ace if I could 3d print the moon at some sensible scale. Or Mars.
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They wouldn't be that interesting. Planetary sized bodies are really spherical (oblate of course.) Even Olympus Mons at 22 km height is only 0.3% of Mars's diameter of 6700 km. If your Mars model was a meter wide, the biggest mountain would protrude for all of 3 mm worth of relief on the surface.
1:1 would be good. Now, where could I find a model like that..