Full Dome Shows
Clark Planetarium Productions is committed to advancing planetarium engagement by crafting immersive, captivating experiences that inspire audiences of all ages.
The Accidental Astronauts
The Accidental Astronauts - An Earth, Sun, Moon Adventure
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Robo-kids Cy, Annie and their dog Armstrong get a lot more than they expected from their class field trip in an impromptu adventure. Travel along exploring the Sun, Earth and Moon, with a witty starship computer as navigator and guide. Race along on the surface of the Moon! Collect an asteroid sample in low gravity! Survive a solar storm! Find new appreciation for the unique beauty of Earth. Journey along with the Accidental Astronauts in this epic dome theater adventure.
This family friendly show is enjoyable for all ages. Accidental Astronauts was created with curriculum specifically designed to suit elementary school requirements.
Story By: Award-winning children's author Kristin Crow
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Target audiences: Children Age 3-8, School Groups, Families
Available Languages: English & Spanish
Features:
​4k Resolution
60 and 30 FPS
32 Minute Runtime
Attack of the Space Pirates
Attack of the Space Pirates​
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An exciting adventure with the crew of the starship Intrepid. Join with our heroes as they race across the galaxy in a desperate bid to prevent the space pirates from locating an alien technology so powerful it threatens the fate of the galaxy itself. Can Intrepid's crew solve the science clues that lead to exotic places on foreign planets, defend against the might of the space pirate fleet and rescue the device before the pirates obtain it?
A rollicking science fiction journey which helps audiences learn and understand real science facts.
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Target audiences: General Audience Feature Show, Curriculum for Age 11+
Available Languages: English
Features:
3.2k Resolution
30 FPS
35 Minute Runtime / 24 Minute Abridged Version
Black Holes
Black Holes​
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The immensity and power of black holes inspire wonder and curiosity. As we consider these stellar enigmas, the very nature of space time is warped as we approach. The mass of a large star has collapsed and compressed into an area so small that space and time have no meaning within its bounds. Our journey also visits super-massive black holes of unfathomable size at the central point of galaxies. These hidden monsters constrain their entire galaxies around them in a kaleidoscopic gravitational dance.
Voyage through the galaxies in search of the answers to explain these riddles of nature in Black Holes!
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Narrated by: John de Lancie
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Target audiences: General Audience Feature Show, Curriculum for Age 11+
Available Languages: English
Features:
3.2k Resolution
30 FPS
35 Minute Runtime / 24 Minute Abridged Version
The Edge
The Edge​
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The Edge explores the Solar System's Third Realm — the vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune. Learn about Pluto, Charon and more, as we follow the epic journey of the New Horizons spacecraft as it travels to the newly discovered Kuiper Belt Object, Arrokoth.
Travel with us to the edge of the Third Realm – nearly a billion miles past Neptune – as we uncover some of the mysteries of the dwarf-planet Pluto, its five moons, and Ultima Thule.​
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Target audiences: General Audience Feature Show, Curriculum for Age 11+
Available Languages: English
Features:
8k & 4k Resolutions
60 & 30 FPS Versions
25 Minute Runtime
Exploding Universe
Exploding Universe​
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The universe we see and even our existence has been shaped by explosive events like supernovae: the death throes explosions of giant stars. These maelstroms create the elements which form complex molecules and life, seeding the galaxies for future star systems. Explosive events of all scales from the subatomic of particle accelerators mimicking conditions in the early universe, to super volcanoes, stellar deaths and even black hole mergers, form the fabric of the universe we live in. Our understanding of the universe and the matter, energy and forces which are it's substance are tied to explosions of all sizes from the immense to the almost undetectably minute.
Accompany a proton on a grandiose journey through space and time, investigating the explosive forces and events of our known universe.​
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Target audiences: General Audience Feature Show, Curriculum for Age 10+
Available Languages: English
Features:
4k Resolutions
60 & 30 FPS Versions
30 Minute Runtime
Extreme Planets
Extreme Planets​
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Planets around other stars were undetectable science fiction only twenty years ago. Now, as new detection methods have been brought to bear, hundreds of extra-solar planets have been discovered both near and far from Earth. Discover what makes a planet Earth-like. Explore planets which are unlike any we have seen before. Extreme planets aren't science fiction any more, but scientific fact.
From water worlds to molten landscapes, inhabitable moons to planets with multiple suns, these exotic worlds aren’t just science fiction anymore!​
Narrated by: René Auberjonois
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​Target audiences: General Audience Feature Show, Curriculum for Age 10+
Available Languages: English
Features:
2.2k Resolutions
30 FPS Versions
32 Minute Runtime / 23 Minute Abridged Version
Perfect Little Planet
Perfect Little Planet​
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A family from another star system searches our solar system for the perfect vacation spot. Dad wants peace and quiet, Mom wants pretty moons. Visit all the planets and enjoy exotic locales in the vacation trip of a lifetime. Walk on Pluto's frozen surface. Fly the ice cliffs of Miranda. Feel the power of Jupiter's storm clouds.
A fun show for the whole family with awesome vistas and fun exploration. Which destination would you choose, and where will our family of aliens end up?​
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​Target audiences: Families, Ages 3+, Curriculum for Elementary & Junior High
Available Languages: English & Spanish
Features:
4k Resolutions
60 and 30 FPS Versions
35 Minute Runtime / 24 Minute Abridged Version
Secret of the Cardboard Rocket
Secret of the Cardboard Rocket​
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Adventure through the solar system in the Cardboard Rocket! Travel with two children and their navigator, the talking astronomy book. Visit the Sun, the planets, the Moon and more. The narration track was edited in 2007 for the reclassification of Pluto to dwarf planet. References to "smallest planet," "ninth planet," and "last planet" were removed and Pluto is simply termed a planet in view of it being a new category of planet.
Secret of the Cardboard Rocket continues to play worldwide as one of the most beloved dome shows.​
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​Target audiences: Families and School Groups, Curriculum for Ages 8+
Available Languages: English & Spanish
Features:
2.2k Resolutions
30 FPS Versions
40 Minute Runtime / 30 Minute Abridged Version
Saturn: Jewel of the Heavens
Saturn: Jewel of the Heavens​
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Perhaps the most elegant planet in our solar system, once place of mystery, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn unveiled worlds of vibrant wonder. Discover the mystery of Saturn's rings, explore moons with atmospheres and lakes and even frozen over oceans blowing geysers into space. See the differences in the makeup of the bodies around Saturn, an interacting system of gas giant and moons.
Sculpted surfaces of the moons from mission data were carefully overlaid with actual imagery from Cassini for this show. Fly along, as if in person, on the Cassini mission and see incredible views of the cliffs, craters, geysers and more.​
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​Target audiences: General audience feature show, curriculum 10+
Available Languages: English
Features:
3k Resolutions
30 FPS Versions
36 Minute Runtime