Posted for those who might like to track these things...

As many of you know, the early 21st century is the dawning age of "new
media". From video on cell phones, to broadband moving pictures on
wireless laptops, to streaming audio over 3G networks, new media is
the penny press of its day.

But some new media enter the market and mind in location specifics
venues. That's Science On a Sphere, and this year NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center is about to make a big splash in this arena.

Science On a Sphere is a remarkable projection technology developed by
NOAA a few years ago. Designed initially to show planetary data on a
spherical projection screen—essentially an animated globe—the system
bumped around several sleepy venues and demonstrations without fully
catching fire. Then in 2006, however, a small team of experts at NASA
Goddard figured out how to develop a fully produced movie on the
Sphere, and a new kind of cinema was born.

Here's a link for more on the platform itself:

http://sos.noaa.gov/

NASA Goddard is set to release TWO NEW movies on the Sphere worldwide
this spring. The first is called FROZEN.

www.nasa.gov/frozen

It concerns the anatomy and changing nature of the global cryosphere.
The other project is called RETURN TO THE MOON

www.nasa.gov/lunarsphere

This project concerns NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, and
the agency's overall efforts for going back to the moon.


Want to follow our progress in near-real time? Join our new TWITTER
Feed. There you can follow the mostly serious, mostly informative,
always fun progress of the NASA GSFC production team as it moves
towards delivery and release of its two new movies.

Here's the link to sign up to our Twitter feed:

twitter.com/spherenasa

This link will take visitors to the page on Twitter where they can
check out our feed, that is, our regular Twitter updates ("tweets"),
and also decide if they want to specifically join and follow what the
feed. The instructions are self explanatory on the site. This is the
blurb I put out the SOS community. You could use it if you choose to
post the link in various places to tell something about our intentions.


Can't get enough about what we're doing with the Sphere at NASA
Goddard? Check out our Twitter Feed and catch regular "Tweets" about
the latest. You can follow our team's progress in near-real-time as we
send out miniscule updates. And don't worry: this won't be heavy news
either! Expect light-hearted, lightweight blurbs about matters mundane
and majestic , major and minor, miniscule and marvelous. We're
 pushing the frontiers back on a screen without an edge, and we've
decided to stream our experiences out onto the `net.

Here's our address:

http://twitter.com/SphereNASA

Twitter is an "as much or as little as you want" proposition. Don't
want the chatter? Turn the feed off. Want to keep an eye on what's
happening here? Tune us in.

But check it out...or ask a resident twenty-year old on your staff to
give it a try! We're excited to share our work with Sphere watchers,
and we hope you'll have fun tuning in.