Blue Planet - an IMAX space film about Earth. Blue Planet reveals the Earth to us as only three hundred people have ever seen it: from space. From this vantage point, we see how natural forces - volcanoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes, affect our planet; and how a new force, human beings, have begun to alter the face of the Earth. Inspires a renewed appreciation of life on Earth - our only home.

Blue Planet is a 42-minute IMAX space film about Earth presented by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and the Lockheed Coorporation in cooperation with NASA.

Trained to operate the large-format IMAX cameras, astronauts from five space shuttle missions brought back vivid images of the Earth in transition. Audiences see the living atlas, as images that follow the curvature of the Earth reveal the landforms we recognize from our geography books. While most space footage was filmed from about 200 miles above Earth, some scenes, taken during Mission STS-31, take us 330 miles up, higher than has been filmed in IMAX before. 1

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