Ice Worlds takes audiences on a thrilling journey exploring the earth’s frozen extraterrestrial neighbours including Saturn’s giant moon Titan. The exhibition will come to National Maritime Museum in May 2009.
Down through Titan’s hazy atmosphere viewers travel as a digitally animated Huygens spacecraft towards the moon’s icy surface via parachute.
Visitors can now discover the important role ice plays throughout the solar system at the Royal Observatory’s new planetarium show Ice Worlds. The show features state-of-the-art graphic technology to animate digital photographs gathered by scientists studying the earth’s ice caps. Highlights include a huge iceberg splitting away from one of Greenland’s fastest melting glaciers and NASA satellite images of sea ice changing in the Arctic Ocean.
The earth’s polar regions are like frozen time capsules and can reveal what the temperature and atmospheric makeup on Earth were hundreds of thousands of years ago. This information can help scientists better understand the currently changing global climate.
Ice Worlds opens during the National Maritime Museum’s Northwest Passage exhibition, where visitors can discover the history of British Arctic expeditions and find out how global warming is affecting the region today. -- www.nmm.ac.uk
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