Students of International Education Institute visited Moscow Planetarium
18.04.2017
On April 14 within the celebration of Astronautics Day the foreign students of Moscow Technological University made an excursion in the center of natural-science knowledge promotion – the well-known Moscow Planetarium. The visit was organized by I. S. Solunova, Deputy First Vice-Rector and teachers of the Department of Russian as Foreign Language of the International Education Institute.
Our students not only got acquainted with the exhibits of the museum among which there are ancient cards and globes of the stellar sky, models of various celestial bodies, ancient astronomical and navigation devices, a big collection of meteorites, but also got on the sessions of fulldome programs which are shown in the Big Star Hall of the Planetarium by means of a special projector. The students watched popular scientific three-dimensional films "Stellar Sky above Us" and "Travel through Solar System", learned the latest facts about space researches, virtually visited the subsoil of the Sun and the planets of the Solar system, and got acquainted with the arrangement of constellations in our hemisphere.
The representatives of different corners of the world participated in the excursion: Egypt, Tunisia, Guinea and Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Iraq and Bangladesh.