Balboa Park’s Fleet Science Center has opened a new exhibit to celebrate the Internation Year of Astronomy. Making its West Coast debut, the national traveling show invites visitors to explore the amazing wonders of our solar system and its enormous giant planets.
Consisting of 20 individual exhibits filled with interactive experiences and spectacular murals that reveal the grandeur of these amazing planets, visitors can learn about gravity in a simulation that assigns a mass to the visitor’s shadow and demonstrates how particles, such as those in Saturn’s spectacular ring system, interact with the shadow. They can also design and launch a virtual probe into Jupiter’s crushing atmosphere and see how far their probe gets before it is destroyed. This great exhibit will be featured at the Science Center thru May 3. Don’t miss it.
