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Ice Planet Earth

IPY: Ice Planet Earth

March 01, 2010 by Annette Schloss

The modern planetarium is an immersive full-dome theater that can take audiences to Polar Regions – past, present, or future – and can simulate dynamic polar events. With the goal of public engagement and education, we produced the program, Ice Worlds. The show uses comparative planetology themes to present Earth in the context of all ice worlds in the solar system, thus providing a broader perspective for analysis of changes in Earth’s Polar Regions. Ice Worlds was developed for large dome theaters or planetariums and for portable Discovery Domes, which can reach urban and rural audiences throughout the world.

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climate, collaborative, educational, fulldome, immersive, planetarium, polar, portable