Now, our Storm Center 7 team would like to invite you to see our planet in a whole new way through a partnership with the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Science on a Sphere is designed to show museum goers planet Earth as they’ve never seen it before.
"Science on a sphere was originally created by NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a way to show everything that is happening on coastlines, things happening in the atmosphere, anything dealing with the weather, just to promote education to the public about all of that,” Mackenzie English, Laboratory Programs Coordinator at Boonshoft Museum of Discovery said.
"This is a giant, 68-inch diameter, carbon-fiber globe - suspended in mid-air … and it gives visitors an amazing perspective of our planet like you've never seen it before".
From the control console, visitors can get an astonishing array of visualizations of Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and land.
When selecting a feature such as "water vapor", the user will get real weather imagery projected onto the sphere with a detailed explanation of what you are seeing from one of our Storm Center 7 meteorologists.
Visitors can look at clouds, air and water temperatures, ocean currents and even watch commercial air traffic across the planet.
You can check out the Science on a Sphere at Boonshoft with our Storm Center 7 meteorologists Monday through Saturday from 9am to 5pm and Sunday noon to 5pm.
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