Recommended for: Family and Grades 3-6

In this 30-minute OmniDome program a grandfather and granddaughter watch a solar eclipse from scenic cliffs overlooking their moon colony that surround us as if we were there. Conversation leads to contrasts between the moon, the only home the granddaughter knows, and the Earth, where the grandfather has spent most of his life.

Through his stories, the grandfather takes audiences on a dizzying wild canyon ride, to an ice age blizzard with a woolly mammoths, and back in time to where the dinosaurs lived. Each experience begins with a telescope view of the dynamic Earth in stark contrast with the unchanging lunar landscape.

Earth’s Wild Ride is like many tales shared by grandparents over the centuries, except “the old country” is really another planet – always visible from the moon base.

Produced in collaboration with Rice University, through NASA’s Immersive Earth Project.

Time: 11:00 AM.