Buhl Planetarium's "Expedition: Solar System" program, an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded planetarium show, visits various places in our Solar System. Young students become fellow travelers with Quasi the Robot as tour guide. One destination is Mars of course and there we visit with NASA's Perserverance rover and the Integrity helicopter.
We follow Perserverance down as it streaks through the thin Mars atmosphere and is dropped on the desert surface. The rover begins to explore, its mechanical arm extending to gather soil samples and the experimental helicopter, Integrity, taking flight to scout out other destinatins for the rover.
The program is presented using the Buhl's new 8K Digistar7 fulldome video system in the planetarium's 50 foot dome with 10 - 4K video projectors fed by 10 syncronized computers, filling the dome with high definition imagery. A 5.1 Surround audio track completes the immersive experience.
The video here is showing a wide front view of the 360 degree immersive experience. The "Expedition: Solar System" program will be distributed by the Buhl Planetarium to any planetariums requesting the program as part of the IMLS grant's specifications. |
