Iowa Planeterrella

The Iowa Planeterrella at Bellevue West High School in Omaha, Nebraska!

Our booth is ready for the expo tomorrow!

The planeterrella has safely arrived in Washington D.C. and will be set up at the Walter E. Washington center tomorrow morning!

The Iowa Planeterrella will be headed to Washington D.C. next week to be featured at the Science and Engineering Festival!

https://usasciencefestival.org/

USA Science & Engineering Festival | The Nation’s Largest Science Festival

Students of all ages marvel at the glowing plasma within the Planeterrella. As they begin to make the link between what they see and how the sun and Earth really interact, deeper questions start coming out about the "how" and the "what if". This month, the Iowa Planeterrella is inspiring kids at Wilton Schools in the small town of Wilton, Iowa. It continues to reach students in a new and engaging way!

New article today about the UI Planeterrella. A great amount of teamwork led to our automated model of the Aurora and Van Allen Radiation Belts on display now at the UI Old Capitol Museum, The University of Iowa. http://bit.ly/2kknd2Y

Student-built planeterrella recreates Earth’s vivid lightshows in miniature University of Iowa students have built a device to recreate Earth’s auroras in miniature. The planeterrella is the only one of its kind in Iowa and one of just a handful in the United States.

The University of Iowa Planeterrella is now listed on the website of the French group who made the first modern planeterrella!

http://planeterrella.osug.fr/spip.php?article232

La planeterrella - le simulateur d’aurores polaires

These images are to be used in the Hawkeyes in Space museum exhibit located in the Old Capitol Museum. The exhibit is set to open on September 8th, and will tell the story of the astronomy and physics department since its inception to the current and future projects. It will also feature the University of Iowa Planeterrella, as a demonstration to some of the amazing space phenomena that are studied here, especially the Van Allen Radiation Belts named after James Van Allen, once a professor at the University of Iowa.

A slightly different configuration as the Planeterrella is prepared for its first excursion out of Van Allen Hall.

A new formation of the small sphere, with a double layer of plasma!

First demonstration 3/11/2016

http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/resources/events/physics-and-astronomy-demonstration-show

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