PHOTO COURTESY OF HERMISTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry will bring its Magic Planet show back to Hermiston during the month of March.
The “Magic Planet,” featuring a colorful, three-foot globe with bright, spinning displays and video films about Earth projected onto its inside surface sphere, is one component of a three-piece NASA-designed exhibit called Earth From Space.
The Magic Planet sits on top of a projector and is connected to a laptop
programmed by NASA to show dozens of moving images and programs as our planet lights up and spins.
Library patrons of all ages can use push-buttons to have The Magic Planet show any of dozens of brilliantly-colored displays such as Earth’s city lights, climate change, tsunamis, wind streams, ocean currents, geographic and topographic features and much more – including seven-minute videos about Earth that are projected onto the globe’s surface.
“The Magic Planet is amazing,” said Nate Lesiuk, program developer for OMSI’s Earth From Space program. “It captivates the senses. The one we’re bringing out to eastern Oregon is a smaller version of the huge “Science on a Sphere” exhibit we have here at the museum in Portland. People are fascinated by it. Here at the museum we call it eye candy.”
The Magic Planet is brought to public libraries in the region through a NASA grant provided to OMSI in partnership with Libraries of Eastern Oregon (LEO).
For further information, contact Hermiston Library Director Marie Baldo at 541-567-2882.
