I had the good fortune to attend a screening of the IMAX movie Roving Mars at the Darling Harbour theater with members of NSAS tonight.
I found the film very enjoyable and the screen size amazing...especially during the launch scenes and the computer generated landing scenes. It was breathtaking.
To me one of the most remarkable things was how "real" the computer generated stuff looked...the line between reality and imaginary is getting pretty thin...(not intentionally meant to inspire consiracy theorists).
I was able to take my oldest son and he "soaked" it all up too...oh and ate a big bucket of popcorn...
I have been to only two IMAX movies this one and "Walking on the Moon" and found the experience of both very enjoyable!
Anyway, thanks NSAS for organizing this nice outing...and for those of you "hooked on space"...it is a well spent 45 minutes or so...
It is (as near as I could tell) based on actual data recieved from the rovers and the pictures of Mars are "the real deal"...but, they do Computer Generate the landing of the rovers complete with sound and "bouncing airbags"...yes, based on actual data and events but "animated" (there was no camera on Mars recording the landings (although it did look real enough)...
yeh I wasn't able to go with the NSAS guys, sounded like it would have been a great event. I'll try and get along in the next few weeks with the family - it's definitely something I want to watch.
