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EARTH'S WILD RIDE 2
When:
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Where: Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium, 5781 Wingate Hall Orono
Cost:
$ 3
Category:
Description: 2
In this 30-minute OmniDome program a grandfather and his grandchildren watch a solar eclipse from the scenic cliffs overlooking their moon colony. Conversation leads to contrasts between the moon, the only home the grandchildren know, and the Earth where the grandfather has spent most of his life. Through his stories the grandfather takes audiences on a dizzying wild canyon ride, to an ice age blizzard with a woolly mammoths, and back in time to where the dinosaurs lived. Each experience begins with a telescope view of the dynamic Earth in stark contrast with the unchanging lunar landscape. Earth’s Wild Ride is like many tales shared by grandparents over the centuries, except “the old country” is really another planet – always visible from the moon base. Produced in collaboration with Rice University, through NASA’s Immersive Earth Project. http://www.galaxymaine.com/MI/MI1.htm Raising Maine
Event Posted 2009-09-29
In this 30-minute OmniDome program a grandfather and his grandchildren watch a solar eclipse from the scenic cliffs overlooking their moon colony. Conversation leads to contrasts between the moon, the only home the grandchildren know, and the Earth where the grandfather has spent most of his life. Through his stories the grandfather takes audiences on a dizzying wild canyon ride, to an ice age blizzard with a woolly mammoths, and back in time to where the dinosaurs lived. Each experience begins with a telescope view of the dynamic Earth in stark contrast with the unchanging lunar landscape. Earth’s Wild Ride is like many tales shared by grandparents over the centuries, except “the old country” is really another planet – always visible from the moon base. Produced in collaboration with Rice University, through NASA’s Immersive Earth Project. http://www.galaxymaine.com/MI/MI1.htm Raising Maine
