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.

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

Watch the English version of the video on YouTube:

external pageInSight – 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 Sciences prepared an online lecture about how and why we use the InSight mission to explore the interior of Mars:

external pageInSights into Mars

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Get on board and fly with us in our three-part online tour to the Red Planet:

video mars 1

external pageMars – part 1: 'Good to know'

video mars 2

external pageMars – part 2: 'Exploration of the Red Planet'

video mars 3

external pageMars – part 3: 'InSight mission'

This tour is part of the external page'Virtual Museum Tours' launched by the external pageInternational Alliance of Research Universities (IARU).

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

iceland best of video

external pageBest of Geldingadalur eruption, Iceland

iceland drone video

external pageGeldingadalur eruption from above

video mongolia

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

Watch the video: external pageClean 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)