Education Images
Lab Partners
BioTech Boot Camp
Buddy System Project
Flubber Girl
Chemical Reactions - Elephant Toothpaste
Chemistry - Camp
Crazy Contraptions
EcoTech - Building a Windmill
Energy Explorers
Fun Can Get Messy
Insulating a Roller Coaster
Learning to Build Simple Structures
Making Simple Structures
Marble Roller Coaster
Music Making - Kazzos
Science Experiment in a Bag
Science Detectives - Chromatography
Solar Cars
Space Camp - Dry Ice Sublimation
TechChallenge Detectives
Tinkering Marble Roller Coaster
ToyLab - Mini Parachute
Young Scientists - Ready to Learn
Young Tinkerers - Deconstructing a Keyboard
Camp - Superhero Science
Heikoff Giant Dome Theater
Heikoff Giant Dome Theater featuring Frank, the astronaut
Heikoff Giant Dome Theater interior
Heikoff Giant Dome Theater cool lights
Heikoff Giant Dome Theater cool lights
Heikoff Giant Dome Theater featuring the IMAX® film, Born to be Wild
Heikoff Giant Dome Theater featuringthe IMAX® film, Coral Reef Adventure
Origins of Life
Origins of Life - In the dark
Origins of Life - Exhibition components
Origins of Life Lab apparatus night shot
Origins of Life Color change in Vienna
Origins of Life - Chart showing the process of synthesis from raw materials to amino acids
Origins of Life - Stanley Miller’s original chromatogram showing the amino acids produced in his classic 1953 experiment
Origins of Life - Stanley Miller at University of Chicago © University of Chicago
Origins of Life - Test tubes and lab apparatus © Erik Smith
Origins of Life - Illustration of original Miller-Urey experiment
Rocky Mountain Express
The Empress (CPR 2816), a steam locomotive
Steam clouds surround The Empress (CPR 2816)
The Empress (CPR 2816) steams past a river
Closer look at the locomotive's Wheels
The IMAX camera mounted far out in front of 2816
The Empress (CPR 2816) crosses a long bridge
Elevated bridge to cut distance between heights
Challenging territory to build a traintrack through
Work could not continue in bad weather
The challenges of finding the right path
The landscape flies by
The Empress (CPR 2816) speeds past steep rock walls
Inside the locomotive of The Empress (CPR 2816)
Director Stephen Low adjusts a shot from atop The Empress
Inches to spare, the camera would be quickly covered in tunnel soot
Side-mounted camera for POV shots
Cosmic Collisions
Cosmic Collisions color logo
Cosmic Collisions b&w logo
Cosmic Collisions - In the violent aftermath of a collision four-and-a-half billion years ago between a young Earth and a Mars-sized wandering body, the remaining debris circling Earth quickly starts to coalesce into our Moon.
Cosmic Collisions - A young Earth moments after a collision with a Mars-sized wandering body four-and-a-half billion years ago
Cosmic Collisions - Streams of charged particles from the fiery surface of the Sun (the solar wind) race toward Earth at over a million miles an hour in this image taken by NASA satellites.
Cosmic Collisions - Graphic representation shows how most of the ionized particles from the solar wind are deflected off the protective cocoon of Earth's magnetic field.
Cosmic Collisions - A dramatic re-creation of the meteorite impact that hastened the end of the Age of Dinosaurs 65 million years ago is a highlight of Cosmic Collisions.
Cosmic Collisions - A possible "doomsday" asteroid heads for a collision with Earth.
Cosmic Collisions - Two small stars smash together to form a larger rejuvenated star in the heart of a globular cluster on the edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
Cosmic Collisions - Our Milky Way galaxy and its closest neighbor, the Andromeda spiral galaxy, swirl headlong into each other in an intergalactic collision predicted to occur billions of years in the future.
Cosmic Collisions - The asteroid thought to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Cosmic Collisions - A comet streaks past the sun towards earth.
Cosmic Collisions - An asteroid passes earth.
Cosmic Collisions - Pieces raining down on earth from collision believed to have caused the creation of the moon
Cosmic Collisions - A galaxy colliding with a star.
Cosmic Collisions - The surface of the sun.
Cosmic Collisions - Space debris passing through the earth's magnetic field.
Great Balls of Fire Exhibition
Great Balls of Fire - Asteroid
Great Balls of Fire - Comet
Great Balls of Fire - DI Rawlings
Great Balls of Fire - Entry Fireball
Great Balls of Fire - eros reconstruct
Great Balls of Fire - logo 2
Great Balls of Fire - logo 1
Great Balls of Fire - Meteors fly through space
Great Balls of Fire - Girls examine "Is it Rock or Meteorite?" exhibit
Great Balls of Fire - Examining "Is it Rock or Meteorite?" under the microscope
Great Balls of Fire - "What If it hit My Town?"
Great Balls of Fire - Name the "Mystery Asteroid"
Great Balls of Fire - Boys checking out a Great Balls of Fire exhibit
Great Balls of Fire - The challenge of " Can You Save Earth?"
Great Balls of Fire - In the pod at "Comet & Asteroid Quest"
Great Balls of Fire - Itokawa asteroid pictured in the Hayabusa mural
Great Balls of Fire - NASA Mission DAWN orbiting Vesta
Great Balls of Fire - Dinosaur extinction event mural
Great Balls of Fire - NASA mission WISE maps the cosmos
Reuben H. Fleet Logos & Standard Art
Ruben H. Fleet Logo - Standard/Color
RHF - 40th Anniversary logo
RHF 40th stacked color logo
RHF 40th long color logo
RHF - 40th Anniversary logo
RHF - 40th Anniversary logo - Blue
RHF - 40th Anniversary logo - Blue
RHF - 40th Anniversary logo - Gold
RHF - 40th Anniversary logo - Red
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center at night
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center exterior
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center exterior in Spring
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center exterior in a beautiful evening in Balboa Park
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center exterior at night with the Bea Evenson Fountain - 1
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center exterior at night with the Bea Evenson Fountain - 2
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center exterior at night with the Bea Evenson Fountain - 3
To The Arctic
Swimming polar bear.
Brad Ohlund, Director of Photography
A polar bear mother protects her two 7-month cubs in Svalbard, Norway.
Shooting in glacial waters.
Polar bears on a glacial iceberg.
Polar bear taking a break.
This herd of walruses cools themselves in the Rankin Inlet of Baffin Island, Canada.
A polar bear roams in search of its next meal in Churchill, Canada.
This polar bear skates on thin ice in Svalbard, Norway.
This polar bear mother is focused on protecting her two cubs from the dangers that surround them.
A story of this mother's love and struggle for survival.
This polar bear lays low in Churchill, Canada.
Glaciers like this one in Svalbard, Norway are melting at a rapid pace.
These mountains found in Coldfoot, Alaska have seen drastic changes over the years.
Photo: Shaun MacGillivray
This mother caribou nurtures and protects her newly born calf in Coldfoot, Alaska.
Flight of the Butterflies
A pair of monarchs rests on a wildflower.
Monarchs fill the sky, providing a breathtaking view.
Closeup of monarch butterfly
Stephanie Sigmen as Catalina Aguado & Shaun Benson as Ken Brugger Photo Credit: "Courtesy of SK Films"
Closeup of monarchs drinking
Closeup of monarch caterpillar
Patricia Phillips & Gordon Pinsent as Norah & Fred Urquhart
Monarch butterfly cluster
Butterfly haven
Enchanted butterfly forest
Monarch butterflies resting on tree trunk
Closeup of monarchs.
A single monarch takes flight off a milkweed leaf.
A lone monarch butterfly emerges from its chrysalis under a picnic table in Toronto.
A single monarch lands on a bluebonnet on location in Texas.
The sun briefly awakens the roosting monarchs from their fir-tree perches to take a drink.
Monarch butterflies gathering in the El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary in Mexico.
A single monarch rests on milkweed, a plant it needs to survive. It exclusively lays its eggs on milkweed, the caterpillars immediately eat its leaves to fatten up quickly and adults drink its nectar, along with nectar of other plants.
So Watt!
Owned and operated by San Diego Gas & Electric, the 10,000 square feet of photovoltaic solar panels on the roof of the Fleet Science Center generate up to 100 kilowatts of "green" electricity for San Diego's power grid
Exhibits in "So WATT!" take visitors for a guided tour of how electricity is generated and offers simple strategies on how to conserve energy at home.
Positioning the solar panels at different angles to the light source demonstrates different levels of power generated.
A young visitor spins a wheel to generate electricity at "Make a Watt."
Visitors are surprised to discover how much more energy is required to light traditional light bulbs as opposed to energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.
Nano
Mom helps move the magnetite sand at "Small, Smaller, Nano"
Dad lends a hand with magnetite sand at "Small, Smaller, Nano"
Families work together to "Balance Our Nano Future"
Mon and son keep the world from tipping at "Balance Our Nano Future"
Totally engrossed in the properties of magnetite sand at "Small, Smaller, Nano"
Learn about size and proportion as you "Build a Giant Carbon Nanotube"
Every atom counts when you "Build a Giant Carbon Nanotube"
Checking out the final version of a "Giant Carbon Nanotube"
It takes a village to "Balance Our Nano Future"
Trying a series of interactive challenges at "I Spy Nano"
Mom can help "Build a Giant Carbon Nanotube"
Mom can help "Build a Giant Carbon Nanotube"
