A plan is in the works to upgrade a key element of an unusual Aroostook County tourist attraction — the Maine Solar System Model. Fundraising is underway to build a three-dimensional model of ...

Installation starts this week for the 23-foot-tall structure. It's the newest addition to the Maine Solar System Model, which was built 20 years ago and now stretches from UMPI’s campus for 100 ...

We knew we couldn’t get it." I first spot the Maine Solar System Model through the car windshield. I’m on the road to catch the raising of Saturn. It’s late October, and McCartney is racing ...

That morning, he plans to unveil a new 3D model of the sun at the campus entrance, standing 40 feet high. It will serve as the new northern terminus of the Maine Solar System Model, a sprawling ...

Anyone traveling along Route 1 from Presque Isle will find parts of the largest three-dimensional scale model of the solar system in the western hemisphere, the Maine Solar System model.

Maine's community solar ... “One of the amazing things about solar, and (distributed generation) more broadly, is the ...

On 7 April, the festival offers bus trips to the Maine Solar System Model, the largest 3D scale model of the solar system in the western hemisphere, along with a stop at the planetarium at the ...

This is around the time that you start seeing the first of the steel and fiberglass planets in the University of Maine at Presque Isle’s scale model of the solar system, which extends for nearly ...

one of the attractions in the Houlton area will be a tour of the Maine solar system model, which allows visitors to get a sense of the scope of the solar system by driving along the route.

If developers of solar and wind projects want to build on Maine farmland ... State agriculture officials will use a point system that provides flexibility to weigh several factors according ...