Documentaries
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CADENS is producing three ultra-high-resolution digital documentaries that will premiere at giant screen fulldome theaters and will be scaled for wide distribution to smaller theaters found at a growing number of museums, planetariums, science centers, and academic institutions. “Digital fulldome planetariums are the fastest-growing immersive theater format today,” said Mike Bruno, Creative Media Director at Spitz, Inc. From these dome documentaries, CADENS will reformat and produce long form and short form documentaries that will be distributed on Internet and broadcast television internationally. CADENS is also producing flat screen 4K and HD Internet and broadcast television documentaries.
Below are links to our major documentary subjects. Each of these pages provides a more detailed description of the project, including visualization specifically created for the program as well as derivative products, relevant educational material, and links to view excerpts and full shows.
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Solar Superstorms
Solar Superstorms Trailer on VIMEO
Explore the answers by venturing into the seething interior of our star. Solar Superstorms is an ultra-high resolution fulldome show that takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma, as the sun vents its rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system, known as coronal mass ejections.
Astronomy/Cosmology
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Birth of Planet Earth
A dramatic retelling of our planet’s origins featuring data-driven supercomputing visualizations and cutting-edge digital animations.
Astronomy/Cosmology
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Seeing The Beginning of Time
A cutting-edge film based on the work of scientists opening a powerful new window into deep space. Using high-tech telescopes we can now capture light across wide swathes of the universe and channel a vast flow of cosmic data into supercomputer models to probe the forces and events that shaped it. What can we learn about the origin of galaxies like the Milky Way, and of worlds like our own?
Astronomy/Cosmology
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Supertornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri, the costliest and one of the deadliest tornado disasters ever. What did scientists learn when they peered into the realm of this SuperTornado?
Geosciences
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The Jupiter Enigma
What can the giant planet Jupiter tell us about the rise of planet Earth over four billion years ago? Drawing on new findings from NASA’s Juno mission, scientists are peering into Jupiter’s stormy hear to reveal the very origins of our solar system: a chaotic early time when smaller planets were flung out to space or sent into shattering collisions, and the fate of our world hung in the balance.
Astronomy/Cosmology
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Atlas of a Changing Earth
Coming Spring 2021
Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are steadily warming. Great stores of ice, covering Antarctica in the south and Greenland to the north, are beginning to melt at an increasing rate. Scientists are using satellites to map these barren regions and track these changes.
Geosciences
Humanities
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CADENS is supported in part by the National Science Foundation through award ACI-1445176.
CADENS is supported in part by the National Science Foundation through award ACI-1445176.
