As part of the Space for Life program for 2022, the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium is pleased to present Elsewhere, a spectacular, immersive theatrical experience based on scientific visualizations and authentic data from NASA missions, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ), telescopes, supercomputer simulations and research from institutions around the world.
Immerse yourself in distant worlds, groundbreaking space missions and spectacularly immersive scenes that illustrate the evolution of our solar system.
Narrated by Quebec comedian Leila Donabelle Kaze, Ailleurs takes us on an exciting journey that reveals the amazingly dynamic nature of the worlds orbiting our sun and the unique conditions that support life on our planet.
Developed by an award-winning team of scientists, educators and science visualization experts from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Ailleurs takes viewers on an adventure through the solar system, our moon and our neighbors Mars and Venus to beyond the asteroid belt. You’ll discover worlds of ice and gas, like Saturn and Jupiter, that host moons and reveal active weather, erupting volcanoes and submerged oceans.
An age of extraordinary exploration
Elsewhere, the explorations led by man’s closest representatives: the robotic explorers of the last 50 years are celebrated.
Viewers land on neighboring worlds and experience recreated real-world events, such as landing on the moon’s gray and cratered surface, discovering the liquid methane lakes of Titan, the moon of Saturn, etc. Visualizations based on 13 years of data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are based, show viewers the awe-inspiring swirling rings of Saturn like never before.
In addition, the audience will encounter one of Jupiter’s many moons, Io, the most volcanically active object in the solar system; Europa, another moon of Jupiter whose icy crust contains more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans; Comet 67P, a frozen object moving between the inner and outer solar systems that ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has been tracking for 10 years; and the arid, dusty landscape of Mars, based on high-resolution global maps from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Global Surveyor, and ESA’s Mars Express.
Somewhere else
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On view since June 18th
Target group: from 7 years
Duration: 25 minutes
Paired with the animated show Celestial Chronicles