Origins


JPL





Contracted by JPL to produce animations for a video entitled "Origins" . The video discusses the possibility of life on other planets. The animations show a fly-through of the Milky Way Galaxy, renderings of a couple of conceptual space probes, as well as flybys of a few new planets never before seen by human eyes! To find out more about the Origins project, check out the Origins website.

If you download the VivoActive plugin you can view the video by clicking here.
You can also download a higher quality (36 MB) version of the video here.

Here's a few prelim images of the galaxy fly-through:



And a few prelim images of a journey through a star cluster.



Here's the current concept design for the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which will seek out new solar systems beyond our own.



Find out more about TPF on the TPF website.

And the SIM (Space Interferometry Mission) spacecraft, which will measure star positions and their distances.



Find out more about SIM on the SIM website.