Seis miembros de la tripulación de la Estación Espacial Internacional que están a punto de lograr uno de los descubrimientos más importantes en la historia humana: la primera evidencia de vida extraterrestre en Marte. A medida que el equipo comienza a investigar y sus métodos tienen consecuencias inesperadas, la forma viviente demostrará ser más inteligente de lo que cualquiera esperaba.
What forms might life take in the Solar System and beyond? In the Academy's newest original planetarium show, see how a deeper understanding of Earth might help us locate other living worlds, light years away.
En 1960, cuatro científicos estadounidenses viajan a un planeta que acaba de ingresar al sistema solar de la Tierra para ver si es capaz de sustentar una colonia terrestre. Encuentran una atmósfera de oxígeno, un exuberante bosque similar a la tierra y animales similares a la tierra que viven alrededor de un lago de agua dulce potable.
Abdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save this cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.
Christo Roppolo claims to have been videotaping and communicating with UFOs around Monterey, California, for several years. He contacted filmmaker, Justin Gaar, in 2013 to begin creating a film about his sightings. Skeptical of the footage but intrigued by Christo's eccentricities and wild stories, Justin begins spending time with Christo hunting UFOs along California's beautiful central coast. When a crop circle appears in Monterey County and becomes international news, Christo is validated in his belief of alien contact and Justin, shocked, begins investigating the source of the crop circle and how Christo knows beyond a doubt that he's being contacted by his "brothers from space."
In 1977, two golden records containing recordings of life on Earth were launched into space on the Voyager probes. A message in a bottle to extraterrestrial life. They also included the brainwaves of human love.
The latest in the study of UFOs from well known UFOlogists, I Want to Believe examines how and why they got into the field, the most credible information currently available and the prospect for high-level disclosure.
What if there was a museum that contained every type of life form in the universe? This experience takes you on a tour through the possible forms alien life might take, from the eerily familiar to the utterly exotic, ranging from the inside of the Earth to the most hostile corners of the universe. New research is upending our idea of life and where it could be hiding: not just on Earth-like planets, where beings could mimic what our planet has produced, but in far flung places like the hearts of dead stars and the rings of gas giant planets. Nowhere in the universe is off limits. Only when we know what else is out there will we truly know ourselves. This thought experiment will give us a glimpse into what could be out there, how we might find it, and just how far nature’s imagination might stretch.
Franck is an astrophysicist. His job is to perform laser drillings with the Lynx, an exploration rover on Mars. Assisted by his collegues, he spends the night looking for traces of organic life by examining rocks. In the morning, he will meet with his son who has been traveling around the world after staying with his mother.
Directed by renouned animator Ward Kimball, ' Mars and Beyond' is a lighthearted exploration of the history and future of Space Travel as understood back in 1957! Theories from scientists and philosophers are discussed. Focusing on Mars. Ideas from science-fiction authors H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs are brought to life with colorful animation. Pulp science fiction comics of the time are parodied. Life on other planets is considered, profiling each of the planets in the solar system from the perspective of what would happen to man on them. A masterpiece of animation and sci-fi that was way ahead of it's time. Ward Kimball was perhaps the most inventive of all Disney animators and probably the only one who admitted to experimenting with psychedelic drugs in the 60's. Also the only animator who Walt Disney ever called a "genius."
Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco explains what it takes to look for life beyond Earth, and what conditions are required for life to exist. Porco argues that Saturn’s moon Enceladus—with its plumes of water vapor spewing into space, confirmed organic materials, and evidence of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of its liquid ocean—is the most promising place to look. Could Enceladus be the key to proving once and for all that life is not unique to Earth? What would it mean—both scientifically and spiritually—if we found evidence of a true second genesis right here in our own galactic back yard?
The search for planets beyond our solar system has brought an historic discovery: a planet slightly larger than Earth orbiting a star called Proxima Centauri. At just over 40 trillion kilometers from the Sun, Proxima Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor. Does its planet have a climate, or even life?
La década de los años 50 fue un tiempo marcado socialmente por un sentimiento idealista, esperanzador y deseoso de nuevas oportunidades. La "era atómica", con su promesa de salvar a la humanidad, revolucionó el mundo, tanto en su proyección tecnológica como social y política. Todos estos factores dieron luz a uno de los géneros cinematográficos más prolíficos de la historia del cine: la ciencia ficción. Un monstruoso reptil que invade las calles de Nueva York o el horror causado por una enorme araña mutante son sólo un par de ejemplos de las imágenes que, por aquel entonces, llegaban a las salas de cine y hacían las delicias de los espectadores que acudían a ellas. Sólo algunos años más tarde estos mismos espectadores veían en las pantallas de sus televisores cómo los rusos lanzaban al espacio su nave Sputnik; el hombre había conseguido uno de los mayores logros de la humanidad, conquistar el espacio, un acontecimiento que demostraba que la realidad podía superar a la ficción.
