Zipping along U.S. 1, it's easy to overlook planet Mars. After all, it's only 3 inches in diameter, perched atop a pole next to the "Welcome to Presque Isle" sign. But it's hard to miss Jupiter, which is 5 feet in diameter and weighs close to a ton, next to a potato field.

What unfolds along a stretch of a highway through the rolling farm country of northern Maine is billed as one of the world's largest scale model of the solar system. Due to be dedicated June 14, the model was a labor of love completed over four years with volunteers and a budget of zero. The necessary ingredients included a community's can-do attitude and inspiration of an eccentric professor.

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