Blue Planet 3D

**mshah** · 02-05-2010 07:02 AM

Billions of people have lived on Earth, but only a few hundred have seen it as it appears in space, suspended like a bright jewel in the vast black void. In Blue Planet you will experience a view of our global home that is as close to being in orbit with the astronauts as one can possibly get.
Trained to operate the large format IMAX® cameras, astronauts from five space shuttle missions brought back brought back stunning images of the Earth in transition. Audiences will see a breathtaking earthrise as it fills the giant screen, shimmering blue and majestic in the blackness of space. See a living atlas, as images that follow the curvature of the Earth reveal the landforms we recognise from our geography books.
The familiar shapes of India and Sri Lanka, the Big Island of Hawaii shows us what volcanoes can create; at the Straits of Gibraltar we see the meeting of two great continents, Europe and Africa, with the Mediterranean Sea between them.
In Africa, we travel high above the Great Rift and the broad Serengeti plain, and upon a closer look meet the many species that live there, some in harmony, some in competition.
See climactic change such as shrinking lakes and glaciers, and the expanding deserts. View tropical storms as seen from space making beautiful patterns as they develop, but acting violently at ground level. View the plates that make up the earth’s crust and witness what can happen when these plates decide to move.
In Blue Planet you will see first hand the most powerful force on earth; one that has more effect than earthquakes, hurricanes or volcanoes. With view from space you will see some of the damage our ever increasing population is inflicting; silt flooded rivers, burning rainforests and smog filling the air which all life on earth breathes.
From a unique vantage point, Blue Planet will show you earth as you have never seen it before.
Blue Planet is a space film ... about Earth. While we can marvel at the shimmering blue beauty of our planet as the astronauts see it, we are compelled to take a closer look at our only home.