A camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes pictures in the infrared -- wavelengths of light longer than those that can be seen by the human eye.
It goes without saying, then, that, in terms of its plot line, Space Odyssey is light years off beam.
It's as if they were adrift in "the world of light" of Mount Olympus described by Homer in "The Odyssey," that place where "gods live their days of pleasure".
An arrangement of "Light of Silence" was performed on July 9, 2011 at the Symphonic Odysseys concert, which commemorated the music of Uematsu.
"Speed," a MacGillivray-Freeman Film spectacular, is an odyssey through time and imagination--from neolithic man's primary understanding of speed to future transport at the speed of light.
It concerns the spiritual odyssey of a young "water clerk," drawn to the sea by "light holiday literature," who abandons a sinking passenger ship called the Patna.
From its opening, with the dawn lighting up the sharply drawn hills, an image that simultaneously evokes "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Silent Light" (by Carlos Reygadas, one of the brightest stars in the new Mexican cinema), you know you're in the hands of a real director.
The Feast of the Epiphany recalls to Christian minds an odyssey, a mysterious light, a flying in the face of reason.
Computer light pens had been used for practical purposes at MIT in the early 1960s, and the Magnavox Odyssey had a light gun accessory, in the production of which Nintendo was involved.
"Maverick Genius: The Pioneering Odyssey of Freeman Dyson".
