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Space Station 3D
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
This Earth-Orbiting Laboratory Draws Upon the Scientific and Technological Experience of 16 Nations.
As astronauts and cosmonauts lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, students learn first hand what it means to be a space explorer. Space Station 3D allows students to peek in on the daily duties of fellow crew members living and working in space and enjoying humorous moments in the near weightless world of Earth orbit. The ISS is a technical marvel which will have a wing span of 356 feet and a length of 290 feet. Giant solar arrays churn out enough energy to power about 50 average North American homes. ISS is a permanent facility focused on studying the effects of long-duration exposure to microgravity, which is the first step toward the global, cooperative effort needed to venture out to Mars and beyond.
THE EDUCATOR'S GUIDE INCLUDES LESSON PLANS FOR ACTIVITIES TO EXPLORE:
• Science - ISS related science experiments
• Math - Create mathematics problems and solutions related to the ISS
• Geography - Identify geological features in images of Earth from Space
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Dinosaurs Alive 3D
Approx. Running time: 45 mins.
A Gigantic Adventure Dinosaurs Alive!3D begins in the Gobi Desert, where famous adventurer Roy Chapman Andrews once hunted for dinosaur fossils and then takes you on an 3D voyage of science and discovery. You’ll join some of the world’s preeminent paleontologists as they uncover evidence that dinosaurs still walk (or fly) among us and you’ll duck in your seat as the earliest dinosaurs of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous march out of giant screen, life-sized and ‘reincarnated’.
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Hubble 3D
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
Experience the gripping story -- full of hope, crushing disappointment, dazzling ingenuity, bravery, and triumph. HUBBLE is the seventh awe-inspiring film from the award-winning IMAX Space Team.
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and vividly captured with IMAX technology, HUBBLE recounts the amazing journey of the most important scientific instrument since Galileo's original telescope and the greatest success in space since the Moon Landing -- the Hubble Space Telescope. Audiences will accompany the space walking astronauts as they attempt some of the most difficult tasks ever undertaken in NASA's history, and will experience up close the awesome power of the launches, the heartbreaking setbacks, and the dramatic rescues of this most powerful story.
HUBBLE will also reveal the cosmos as never before, allowing viewers of all ages to explore the grandeur of the nebulae and galaxies, the birth and death of stars, and some of the greatest mysteries of our celestial surroundings, all in amazing IMAX 3D. Rating: (G)
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Hurricane on the Bayou
Approx. Running time: 45 minutes
HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU 2D takes viewers on a breathtaking tour of one of the most vibrant places in America, the Louisiana bayou and the city of New Orleans, a place overflowing with life, music and natural beauty. Here, in the region's bountiful coastal wetlands, alligators, humans and other wildlife have lived in harmony for centuries.
Tragically, these wetlands are eroding into the sea at the speed of one acre every thirty minutes, leaving the entire region more vulnerable to major hurricanes. HURRICANE ON THE BAYOU 2D offers an emotional portrayal of this environmental calamity and the staggering effects of one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history, Hurricane Katrina.
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Grand Canyon 2D
Approx. Running time: 34 minutes
In only 34 minutes, viewers will discover a Grand Canyon that would take a lifetime to experience. The film opens with the beginning of man's fragile kinship with this twisting 277 mile Canyon, then moves the audience through time with brief glimpses at the stone pages of human history. From the mysterious Anasazi who inhabited the Canyon 4,000 years ago, viewers will travel through Grand Canyon history to join Major John Wesley Powell as he challenges the unexplored Canyon and raging Colorado River in 1869.
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