Get an astronaut’s-eye-view of Earth’s surface as it changes minute to minute, by the hour, through the seasons, and over the years. You won’t need a spacecraft to see it happen at Science On a Sphere. LHS began Spherecasting in April, 2009. Spherecasting uses SOS to broadcast visual animations of the planet to a network of people around the globe.
Science On a Sphere creates stunning visual effects from real scientific data, and displays them on a six-foot-diameter globe. Three-dimensional video projectors show visitors such effects as the expanding wave pattern of a devastating tsunami, massive storms forming and moving over Earth’s oceans and landmasses, and night lights around the globe that reveal our planet’s most densely populated areas.
Suspended from the ceiling, the animated sphere seems to float in space—the way the Earth looks to astronauts in space. Images of our planet’s weather patterns, climate change, ocean temperature, and more on the giant globe help visitors of all ages understand complex environmental processes that affect everyone on our planet.
Science On a Sphere was developed by Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
