Illuminated Geo-Cosmos globe at the Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Miraikan.
Miraikan, the Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo — which was closed for nearly three months following the March 11 earthquake — has last month unveiled its new gigantic Geo-Cosmos globe, the symbol exhibit of the museum.
Watch this impressive video of the event:
The new Geo-Cosmos is the world’s first globe-like display that uses organic LED panels. The 6-meter orb, which hangs 18 meters from the floor, is composed of 10,362 OLED panels and features a resolution of more than 10 million pixels.
The globe was installed to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the museum as a result of Miraikan’s Chief Executive Director and former astronaut Mamoru Mohri’s desire of “wanting to share with people the sight of our beautiful Earth as seen from space”.
Along with showing daily updated satellite images of Earth, the Geo-Cosmos is capable of simulating variety of scientific and geographical content for the past, present and the future, such as ozone concentration, climate change, forest map, energy consumption, population distribution and much more. Here’s a full list of simulations the visitors can see:
You can read more about Geo-Cosmos at Miraikan’s website.