← NYC Grand Central Solar System Walk

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Mars

Library Way at Park Avenue

📍 You'd struggle to spot Mars here if you dropped it on the ground. This corner also happens to be one of the classic photo angles on Grand Central's façade — worth a moment before moving on.

At true scale: 0.15 in (3.7 mm) across

About this place

425 feet out and 0.15 inches across. Earth is one block back the way you came — the last time on this walk that two planets are a few steps apart.

Next stop →

The next leg runs through the asteroid belt and is properly long: back toward Grand Central, left before the crossing, then west until the New York Public Library.

See the whole route →