focusTerra

Search

Online tours

Visit focusTerra from home! In our web videos our guides will take you on online tours to Iceland, to Mongolia and even to our red neighbour Mars.

focusTerra on YouTube

There are more online tours on the German version of our website.

video insight EN

Our web video 'InSight – Mission zum Mars' (German version) won the 2nd prize in the competition of external page Fast Forward Science 2020. Let's celebrate!

Watch the English version of the video on YouTube:

external page InSight – Mission to Mars
 

IARU Virtual Museum Tours

Our web video is part of the external page 'Virtual Museum Tours' launched by the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU).

Furthermore, Dr Simon Stähler from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences prepared an online lecture about how and why we use the InSight mission to explore the interior of Mars:

external page InSights into Mars

video stähler

Experience the breathtaking beauty of the Geldingadalur volcanic eruption in spring 2021:

iceland best of video

external page Best of Geldingadalur eruption, Iceland

iceland drone video

external page Geldingadalur eruption from above

video mongolia

What are researchers of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences looking for in Mongolia? Geothermal energy! focusTerra joined them, just come along!

Watch the video: external page Clean energy for Mongolia

Virtual tour through the permanent exhibition

Entrance (image: Radek Brunecký) Exhibition tower (image: Radek Brunecký) Relief of the Alps (image: Radek Brunecký) Formation of the Alps (image: Radek Brunecký) Geomagnetism (image: Radek Brunecký) Volcanoes (image: Radek Brunecký) Dynamics of the Earth (image: Radek Brunecký) Meteorites (image: Radek Brunecký) Omniglobe (image: Radek Brunecký) Treasures of the Earth (image: Radek Brunecký) Crystals & minerals (image: Radek Brunecký) Crystal growth (image: Radek Brunecký) Minerals of the Alps (image: Radek Brunecký) Emerald (image: Radek Brunecký) Coloured halite (image: Radek Brunecký) Staircase (image: Radek Brunecký) Oceans (image: Radek Brunecký) Archives of the Earth (image: Radek Brunecký) Landscape models of Zurich (image: focusTerra) Fossilised leave (image: focusTerra) Media stations (image: Radek Brunecký) Relief collection (image: Radek Brunecký) Reliefs (image: Radek Brunecký) Öhninger painting (image: focusTerra)
Earthquake simulator (image: Peter Rüegg, HK)
JavaScript has been disabled in your browser