The World's Largest Hanging Globe is located in Wolfsburg, Germany, not farm from Hanover. The globe can be seen from the high speed train one hour west of Berlin.
The globe has a diameter of 12 m (39'4") and relates to the Earth at a scale of 1:1.000.000. The sun would be as far away as Berlin and fill up Tempelhof Airport (1.4 km ø), Wolfsburg would fit on a fingernail, the Autostadt would take up 1 square millimeter and the Exosphere itself would be of microscopic dimension (12µ), the size of a red blood cell. If the sun were the size of this globe, earth would be the size of an orange, 1.2km away. The structure weighs 4.5 tons.
The blue LED display, indicating the geographic location of Wolfsburg, local temperature and time (supplied by the Atomic clock), is itself positioned where Wolfsburg would be on this globe, assuming that the bottom of the globe is North and the vertical red display represents the position of the international dateline.
[This sculpture was commissioned by Autostadt GmbH. The design, engineering and manufacturing process was greatly supported by Andrew Saunders, Craig Schwitter, Cristobal Correa, Leister GmbH, H+T GmbH, Besamu B.V., Buro Happold]
