This program is one of two autorun stories to model how scientific data can be used to build explanations of events. It is the fictional, but not impossible, story of a penguin feather found by a beach clean up crew in San Francisco. The concept of thermally driven ocean currents is explored. Using the ocean conveyor belt data set and the wind-driven currents data set, visitors are encouraged to refine their predictions. An actual possible path for the penguin feather is then revealed. Finally, visitors view a simulation of a particle moving around the ocean over hundreds of years and learn that there is really only one ocean.
The second story is The Hansa Carrier's Lost Shoes, true story of the spill of a container of Nike shoes into the Pacific Ocean.
Science On a Sphere
