Experience Clark Planetarium.
It’s an amazing week for one of Utah’s most treasured institutions.
Clark Planetarium serves as a gateway to science and exploration. I’ve had the honor recently of helping them revamp their website to enhance the online experience for visitors and to encourage real life visits to Clark.
On Monday, space shuttle Atlantis blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Right now the shuttle is at the International Space Station with astronauts doing their job to advance human knowledge and add to our experience in outer space.
There is a good chance that a young visitor to Clark will someday become an astronaut. Imagine going for a ride like this:
If sending Americans into space isn’t exciting enough, Utah received its own visitor from space on Tuesday night when a meteor lit up the night sky. Clark has an exhibit of meteorites—these are meteors that made it through the atmosphere and landed on the ground. They are pieces of rock from the earliest days of our solar system and are billions of years older than any earth rock. It’s too soon to say for sure, but there could be freshly landed pieces of outer space somewhere out in the Utah desert right now–possibly at Dugway Proving Grounds, which makes meteorite hunting problematic.
Watch this amazing nine second video of this week’s Utah meteor:
Yes, it’s an exciting week at Clark Planetarium. Visit their new website today and experience the thrill of exploring other worlds. Then plan your visit to Clark in Salt Lake City’s Gateway Mall soon.
RIESTER’s CEO, Tim Riester, wrote about the importance of space exploration and education when the last shuttle landed. If you missed his post, read it here.
Thanks you Clark Planetarium for being such an invaluable asset to Utah.
Alan Perkel, RIESTER
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