"Earth From Space"
AT THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART, ONTARIO THRU NOV. 29
By: Matt Tapia
Jonesin‘ for a bit of that gravity-free life? Ever wanted to channel your inner Buzz Armstrong? Well, make it so and point your booster rockets over to the Museum of History and Art in Ontario for its “Earth From Space” exhibit, a 20-poster set featuring (literally) out-of-this-world satellite images of dear old Mama Planet. Unless you’re some sleeper agent for NASA, this will probably be one of the rare chances you get to see what astronauts (and UFOs) see—without that horrible freeze-dried ice cream. Expand your mind with a sky-high view of Manhattan and its urban sprawl of bridges, tunnels and subways, or hover over Egypt and see the mega-massive Pyramids of Giza. The exhibit also features an image of California when roughly five forest fires can be seen spewing smoke all over the place like a poor man’s Krakatoa. A massive hurricane, the grid-like patterns made by Kansas’ farmland and the Arctic Ocean are all here for your ground level perusal, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Yeah, in space, no one can hear you scream, but your inner Gaia will scream when you see the gazillions of streetlights littering the earthscape on the “Earth at Night” shot. It’s not often you get to see stuff from the point of view of satellites with cool names like Landsat 7, QuickBird, IKONOS and Terra—so get trekking.
“Earth From Space” at the Museum of History and Art, Carlson Gallery, Ontario, 225 S. Euclid Avenue., Ontario, (909) 395-2510; www.ci.ontario.ca.us/index.cfm/45525. Thurs-Sun, noon-4PM. Thru Nov. 9
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