With the Planeterrella, travel to the heart of the aurora and unravel their mysteries. With this unique scientific experiment, recreate the interactions between a star and a planet to understand and simply simulate physical phenomena that govern space weather and space climate.
Crédit photo : Quentin Daveau
Developed and imagined at OSUG-IPAG within CNRS and UGA, its development is supported and enabled by many institutions and partners
(Re)discover how auroras are formed on Earth and other planets. Travel to the heart of the solar system and let the many configurations guide you as you visualize plasma-magnetic field interactions, the solar corona and even the clash between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field.
Crédit photo : Thierry Legault
As an immersive and historical experience, the Planeterrella allows to dive into this discipline which studies the solar - planetary interactions and is responsible, among other things, for the polar auroras. In addition to simulating and recreating these phenomena, it is a magnificent tool for explaining, sharing knowledge and making visitors dream.
Crédit photo : AurorAlpes
A fantastic tool for sharing scientific knowledge about space weather, a Planeterrella session is an immersive, intimate, deeply sensory moment where dreams and beauty mingle with science.
Crédit photo : Alexandre Bottollier
Want to see a giant planet falling on a strongly magnetized star? Two planets interacting with their star? A comet and its plasma tail? Uranus or Neptune with their inclined magnetic fields? The blue aurorae at Mars? Or simply the Earth upper atmosphere under the solar wind? Here are some of the pictures that the Planeterrella offers.
Crédit photo : Alexandre Bottollier
In 1899, the Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland demonstrated the polar light mechanism with his Terrella experiment. That is the historical root of the Planeterrella. However, the Planeterrella considerably improves this first design and gets permanently upgraded: it becomes more and more manageable and functional, both lighter and more solid, but above all more and more splendid!
Crédit photo : Norsk Teknisk Museum
The aurora are the most spectacular and well-known phenomenon in a long chain that connects solar activity and the Earth or the other planets. Space weather analyzes and predicts solar bursts and their impacts. In addition to tourism, all major economic activities are impacted by this chain: communications, positioning, transport, energy, military, aviation, space...
Crédit photo : Quentin Daveau
Do you welcome the public in a science center, a planetarium, etc.? Are you a university teacher looking for an experiment for practical in spectroscopy, magnetism or plasma physics? Or do you simply love the aurora and dream of observing them at home? Buy a Planeterrella! Contact us and let's define together the configuration that best suits your needs and desires.
There exists a network of Planeterrellians around the Planeterrella. Please join! Discuss, question and eventually help developing the experience together by connecting with each other and with its inventors to move forward in a common direction!