ThingiverseNeptune scaled one in 250 million
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This model was made using the contrast enhanced mosaics made by Bjorn Jonsson from the data of the Voyager 2 probe. The "relief" of the model is actually the albedo (brightness) level. White clouds are high altitude clouds, and the greats storms are darker vortex of clouds, so we can assume the albedo is proportional to the level of the clouds and the these models represent that. However it must be consider that the wind speeds of the atmosphere change with the latitudes, so the configuration of the atmosphere changes drastically over the time. The rings are actually thinner than the represented model. The height of the ring is 1mm for the more solid disk; 0.6mm for the wider thinner disk; and 0.3mm for the voids between the rings.
The file's names explained: name_1_x_10_y.stl is 1 : x * 10y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.
Neptune
Neptune is the farthest known planet in the Solar System, and the fourth in diameter, four times Earth's. It is slightly heavie