Sneak Peek: The Sant Ocean Hall at NMNH
Wow, what a morning. I spent the morning walking through the new Sant Ocean Hall at the National Museum of Natural History on the Mall. We got an introduction from the direct of the museum, and a great tour through the 23,000 square-foot space. We’ll have a full review up on Friday as part of our Tourism column.
However, there was one bit that was way too cool to wait for Friday to share: Science on a Sphere®. The Smithsonian’s new exhibit features this cool technology from NOAA which involves multiple projectors and a suspended gray sphere. It’s based on four desktop computers running Linux and some multiple projectors. It’s just amazing. Click on for the full size video.
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3 Responses to “Sneak Peek: The Sant Ocean Hall at NMNH”
September 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
There is another Science on Sphere right here in the DC area at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. It shows a movie called ‘Footprints’ all about the Earth and satellite observations…
September 24th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Oh cool, J! Is that open to the public?
September 25th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Indeed…
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/exhibits/sphere.html