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"Space
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| "Earth's Wild Ride" getting rave reviews at HMNS and now available on our portable domes! | |
NOW SHOWING: "Lucy's Cradle" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Come see Lucy, the amazing fossil whose first time out of Ethiopia is Houston! See how changes in Earth changed Earth's inhabitants! We now have created twelve fulldome digital shows, to play in our new "Discovery Dome", with airlock entry, that can come to your school by rentals from our 36 partners around the globe, or to purchase through our spinoff company, e-planetarium.com. Contact Tom Pham for Northeast area shows and system sales, for Northeast area shows and system sales, and Gary Paczosa for the rest of the country. All of our shows may be previewed in their entirety... see http://www.e-planetarium.com/shows.htm for a full listing. |
ALL NEW 2008 EDITIONS
Bring the Museum Home!™ You can now have the experience of a major science museum on your own personal computer! The Rice Space Institute created the first online earth and space digital museum, on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) (and at many other fine museums). It is now available for your home or school! Note: much of our material is available from our web site, but there's just too much to download - get it all on our CDs! Our software in written in Macromedia Director, so it's safe for an unattended school library, and yet you can update it with one click!
ALL
NEW VERSION SPACE UPDATE 7!
FREE SPACE WEATHER CD with a COMBO PACK!
(for a limited time only)
2008 skymovies ready for free download!
Be sure to
REGISTER YOUR CD to get FREE ONLINE UPGRADES!
Fill out a SPACE
UPDATE or EARTH
UPDATE satisfaction survey
and qualify to win free software!
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Online SECURE ordering,
including our NEW "Space Update", "Survey Software" and "Ham TicTacToe"! |
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Space
Update Version 7 with 2008 Sky Maps is shipping
now on CD and DVD with Cassini and Huygens images and Mars Rover
images and VR's! See the Review in the Dec 2003 Sky and Telescope! Registered
users can download free the
2006 sky movies to upgrade the edition you have now, BUT you'll want
to get the all new edition for a very special upgrade price! Mac OSX/Win 2000 or XP hybrid CD-Rom. WE DO NOT SUPPORT WINDOWS VISTA AT THIS TIME ! |
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Earth
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Space Update |
| Four point-and-click
Space Science modules (Sky Tonight, Solar System, Astronomy, and Space
Weather), which can be run separately or as a single
linked system. A click brings down the latest new images! |
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Earth Update |
| The best of Earth
science, updateable on demand (like a browser) but SAFE for unattended
use in a museum or school. Organizes by "spheres" (atmosphere - air,
biosphere - life, hydrosphere - water, geosphere - land, cryosphere
- ice). Sample imagery
from the CD can be viewed from our web site
http://earth.rice.edu/mtpe/ spheres.html. FREE online Upgrades for Registered
users! |
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Digital Immersive Planetarium Shows and Portable Theaters |
| The most fun way to learn earth and space science by being surrounded by moving imagery! Students learn better because they actually experience the science! Check our portable planetarium site for our new shows and systems! |
| Project Director : | Patricia Reiff, Rice University |
| Co-Director : | Carolyn Sumners (HMNS) |
| Chief Designer : | Colin Law |
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| connect@space.rice.edu | UPDATED: 11-20-07 |
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