The Real Sky: Exploring Mars

Take a look at our fascination with the Red Planet and how our exploration of Mars has evolved with the Kirkpatrick Planetarium team. 

Try This: Make a Salad Spinner Nebulae

Create art inspired by cosmic clouds with one special tool from your kitchen!

Try This: Make a Gravitational Lens

Create your own homemade “gravitational lens” with light refraction.

Try This: Make Your Own Constellation

With a few simple supplies and some imagination, make your own night sky of stars and create some new constellations!

Try This: Make Cocoa Craters

See how craters are made and how rocks from deep with the Earth get moved to the surface when a crater is made!

Try This: Make Galactic Slime

Make some slime that's out of this world!

Try This: Explore the Universe In Your Hand

Get an outside look at the immense universe using just a balloon!

Try This: Make Fizzy Moon Rocks

Simulate the way rocks can be studied chemically to find out what they are made of when you make fizzing “moon” rocks!

Try This: Make a Water Rocket

A rocket with serious launching power fueled by nothing more than water and dish soap? Yep, that'll work!

Try This: Making a Vinegar and Baking Soda Rocket

You've seen a vinegar and baking soda volcano, sure. But what about a rocket? Check out how you can launch a rocket with fuel from your kitchen in this #SMOatHome.

Try This: Make a Vacuum Pump from a Bike Pump

Modify a bike pump to create a vacuum pump to do cool space experiments for Space Day!

Try This: Make Moon Sand

Get out of this world with moon sand!

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