Giant Moon model in Warsaw
PR dla Zagranicy
Julian Horodyski
30.05.2019 13:00
Paths next to the Vistula river near Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre will be illuminated with a seven-metre wide, helium-filled model of the Moon.
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“Museum of the Moon” is an artistic installation by British artist Luke Jerram.
The surface of the model was reproduced from a detailed NASA photograph at a scale of 1:500,000, with each centimetre of the surface of the model representing five kilometres of the silver globe.
The installation was brought to Poland in a joint initiative by BBC Earth (the British public broadcaster's natural history channel) and the Copernicus Science Centre, and is part of celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing.
The historic Apollo 11 mission landed the first men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, in 1969. Armstrong’s first step on the surface was broadcast live on TV world-wide and described by him as “one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The installation will be in place from May 30 to June 2.
Paths near the Vistula river, a spot popular with tourists, have been reopened after a flood alert was called off on Wednesday.
(jh/pk)
Source: PAP