Think Kansas weather can be sever, unpredictable, and destructive? Then the new National Geographic Cinema Ventures movie debuting in Exploration Place's Boeing Dome Theatre and Planetarium on Saturday will make Kansas weather seem tame.
Exploration Place, 300 N. McLean Blvd., is one of the first museums in the world to premiere a brand new film, Wildest Weather in the Solar System. This new film takes audiences on a spectacular journey to witness beautiful, powerful and mysterious weather phenomena on our neighboring planets.
In Wildest Weather, visitors will experience these weather extremes through jaw-dropping visuals and state-of-the-art CGI while traveling alongside a fictitious planetary spacecraft. Their journey begins at the sun, where the surface is nearly six times hotter than Earth’s and solar flares can release high-energy particles at a million miles an hour. By the time audiences reach the final planet, beautiful blue-gas-giant Neptune, where winds reach twice the speed of sound, they will be happy they live on Earth. The show also explores weather on Titan — one of Saturn’s moons — and on Pluto.
The recently departed Sea Creatures movie was also a National Geographic production. Museum admission is not required to "do the Dome." Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and $3 for children ages 3 to 11. Members receive a discount on tickets. Call 316-660-0600 to confirm daily show times.
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