Join us in the Anderson Hancock Planetarium for a full-dome experience that allows the audience to follow scientists to a part of the Earth that few humans get to explore. Step out onto an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean and watch and listen as scientists race the fading light to set up one of the most ambitious international climate collaborations ever, MOSAiC. The Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate launched in September 2019. Led by the German Alfred Wegener Institute, the mission froze an icebreaker into the Central Arctic Ocean, to better understand the remote region and the role it plays in global climate and weather patterns.
The evening will include a live star talk, followed by the full-dome video and a Q&A period.
Events in the Anderson Hancock Planetarium are free and open to the public with first-come, first-served seating. Drifting North – Into the Polar Night is a production of Fiske Planetarium.