Now Showing in the Faulkner Planetarium

“Ancient Caves” brings science and adventure together as it follows paleoclimatologist Dr. Gina Moseley on a mission to unlock the secrets of Earth's climate in the most unlikely of places: caves.   Moseley and her team of cave explorers travel the world exploring vast underground worlds in search of stalagmite samples—geologic “fingerprints”—that reveal clues about the planet's climate history.  Their quest leads them to some of the world's most remote caves, both above and below the water, in France, Iceland, the Bahamas, the U.S., and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where they study how rapidly Earth's climate can change, and how it has affected human civilization.  Together, they go where very few humans will ever go, revealing the incredible lengths scientists will go to study the unknown.

A MacGillivray Freeman Films presentation of an Oceanic Research Group Films production with support from the Giant Dome Theater Consortium.

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In the fiery beginnings of our young solar system, worlds are born and obliterated.  Gas giants stir chaos.  And a young sun vents its rage.  How did Earth survive against all odds?

This eye-opening fulldome documentary tracks the perilous path our planet took in its early years through advanced, data-driven, cinema-quality CGI.

It explores some of the greatest questions in science today: How did Earth become a living planet?  What does its history tell us about our chances of finding other worlds that are truly Earth-like?

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After the show, a live show presenter takes you on a tour of the current night sky, including tips for locating the planets, how to find constellations, and ancient myths about the stars.

Travel along with an alien family as they search for the perfect place in our solar system to get away from it all.

Imagine a place that is vast, wild and untouched, where some of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles unfold.  For five years, Florian Schulz has lived in and filmed the Arctic to reveal it to audiences around the globe.  Join Florian as he tracks the Porcupine Caribou herd on the longest animal migration on Earth, and witnesses pregnant female polar bears denning along the coastal plain.

Northeastern Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the wildest places left on the planet – a symbol of wilderness that few have ever seen.  “The Arctic: Our Last Great Wilderness,” the first cinematic exploration of this little-known land, brings you to a world that has evolved intact and wild since the beginning of time.

Produced by Terra Mater Factual Studios, distributed by Cosmic Picture, and written and directed by veteran IMAX® producer Myles Connolly and award-winning photographer and cinematographer Florian Schulz.

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