The end of the gif with the distances between the sun, Mercury, Venus and Earth to scale is kind of informative and then you look at the fine print that indicat

The end of the gif with the distances between the sun, Mercury, Venus and Earth to scale is kind of informative and then you look at the fine print that indicates that with that scale the planets are all represented at 50x and the sun at 2x and it really makes the distances that much more amazingly large. And I have to confess that my mental image of the distance from Mercury to the sun was way off—I'd always envisioned it as being close enough that the sun would fill the daytime sky but really it would just look about 2.5–3 times bigger than it does on Earth.