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Arizona: Earth & Space

Arizona is famous for its clear skies and outstanding geology. It's an ideal destination for earth and meteorology studies.

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Highlighting your tour will be visits to the unique Biosphere 2 and the Kitt Peak National Optical Observatory.

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Highlights

Biosphere 2

Biosphere 2 is a 3.15-acre structure originally built to be a man-made, materially-closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona. It was used to explore the complex web of interactions within life systems in a structure that included five areas based on natural biomes and an agricultural area and human living/working space to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology with the rest of nature.

Colossal Cave Mt. Park

Take your students on a tour of one of the largest dry caves in North America where the temperature is seventy degree year-around. The Colossal Caves are located in the Rincon Mountains where the elevation is three thousand seven hundred feet. When you stand at the entrance to the caves you get a panoramic view of the Sonoran Desert. The Cave is not fully explored, but scientists estimate that there are at least thirty-nine miles of natural tunnels inside the cavern.

Kit Peak National Observatory

The world’s largest collection of optical telescopes is located high above the Sonoran Desert under some of the finest night skies in the world. Kitt Peak, on the Tohono O’odham Reservation, is home to twenty-four optical and two radio telescopes representing eight astronomical research institutions.

Saguaro National Park

Saguaro National Park is located in the Rincon Mountain District at the eastern edge of Tucson, Arizona. The park is unique in that it starts off in the Sonoran Desert and gradually gives way to a montane coniferous forest of the Rincon Mountains. It is one of America's treasures!

Senora Desert Museum

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one place! Exhibits re-create the natural landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region so realistically you find yourself eye-to-eye with mountain lions, prairie dogs, Gila monsters, and more. Within the Museum grounds, you will see more than 300 animal species and 1,200 kinds of plants. There are almost 2 miles of paths traversing 21 acres of beautiful desert.

Titan Missile Museum

The Titan Missile Museum is a vivid reminder of the Cold War during the 1950's and 1960's. The unique nature of the museum is that it contains all of the original equipment from that era as well as the largest nuclear warhead ever constructed.