International Edition Winners - 2011
International Edition Winners - 2011
ALGERIA
Djaidja Noure El-houda "Rhea's surface divided into two geologically different areas based on crater density, for about the second area, in parts of the polar and equatorial regions, has only craters under that size, so the raw images may confirm that if a major resurfacing event occurred some time during its formation." + Read Essay |
AUSTRALIA
Annalise Donohue "I believe that Saturn should be photographed because many people only know about its rings and nothing else. Saturn is the second of the 4 gas giants. Like Jupiter it gives off more heat than it gets from the sun. But unlike Jupiter, it has a magnificent set of rings, and it's so light that it would float in water - if you could find a bath big enough!" + Read Essay | ||
Cecilia Rafanan "Most often, people recognise a moon for its spherical, smooth and creamy white colour, but Saturn’s fourth moon, Hyperion, has undeniably defied this statement. Its mysteries that are yet to be discovered are beyond compare from the other two targets." + Read Essay | ||
Alicia Chen "Rhea and Titan are both peculiar moons that are surrounded by infinite mysteries that should be further investigated and studied. A few of the many reasons as to why we should focus on target 2 include the possibility of life on Titan, cause of 'wispy' formations on Rhea’s surface and comparison of the two moons’ atmosphere." + Read Essay | ||
Jarrod Kimpton "The next reason that the Cassini spacecraft should target Saturn is because of its shear beauty is has to any other planet. Fundamentally Saturn’s intricate ring arrangement. The rings of Saturn contain mostly debris and water-ice all influenced by gravity, giving the ring shape." + Read Essay |
BRAZIL
Ana Catarina Ávila Vitorino "O sistema do planeta Saturno é um dos mais intrigantes do Sistema Solar. O estudo desse planeta, suas luas e seus anéis pode nos ajudar a aprender mais não só sobre ele próprio, mas também a responder algumas perguntas que desafiam a humanidade há milênios. A missão Cassini é um dos projetos que nos ajudam a entendê-lo melhor, e assim obter informações valiosas para pesquisas astronômicas e também em outros campos da ciência." + Read Essay | ||
César de Souza Lima Júnior "Saturno é o segundo maior planeta do Sistema Solar, possui anéis que se constituem de um conglomerado de partículas de gelo e rocha, em forma de poeira cósmica, que é identificado como sua principal característica. É um planeta gasoso composto principalmente de hidrogênio com uma pequena proporção de hélio, metano e outros elementos." + Read Essay | ||
David Richer Araujo Coelho "Saturno é o sexto planeta do sistema solar e o segundo maior depois de Júpiter.Possui uma atmosfera densa , à base de hidrogênio e hélio , aos quais se juntam metano e amônia.Sua densidade é tão baixa , menor que da água , que se o colocássemos em um grande oceano , ele flutuaria ." + Read Essay |
GREECE
Kassiani Skamagka
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Elena Lampiri
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Danai Partheni
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Dallis Charalampos
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Oikonomou Elisseos
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Vyron Papadopoulos
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Martha Orfanidou and Nicky Pyrovolaki
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Theodoros Papazachariou
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Vassiliki Roussou
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PAKISTAN
Iqra Ali Mirza "Among them, target 1, HYPERION for me is the one very strange and interesting celestial body with lots of potential to reveal huge scientific data with lots of implications for future." + Read Essay | ||
Momin Imran "Nearly as large as Mars and possessing an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s, Titan would unquestionably be considered a planet if it orbited the Sun on its own." + Read Essay | ||
Nimra Khalid "Saturn comes second after Jupiter. It is so gigantic and so large that 74 Earth-sized planets can be accommodated into it. Scientists since the time of its discovery are puzzled of the origin of these rings." + Read Essay | ||
Farkhanda Shahid "I think Cassini should target Hyperion for close up view by getting answers of many unresolved questions. To justify my choice, here I am giving few reasons of choosing this." + Read Essay | ||
Syeda Sughra Hassan "Hyperion’s surface is covered with craters so many that its hard to tell which crater is where. We can’t really see the crators properly form a telescope here on earth so I think it’s better if Cassini gets up close and personal with Hyperion." + Read Essay | ||
Syed Emaad Rizwan "I have always been dreaming of becoming one of the scientists of the century, and now it seems that my dream can come true" + Read Essay | ||
Sara Zulfiqar "The human beings of today are not chained to Earth anymore. We have become the visionaries of tomorrow and have endless opportunities to prove our mettle." + Read Essay | ||
Ahmed Ali Tariq "Target 2, Rhea and Titan is the most valuable among the three as it would solve many mysteries and will take us one step closer to understand the solar system and our place in it." + Read Essay | ||
Naseer Ahmed "The first motive which elaborates the significance of the target 3 is that since 2004 when Cassini was launched towards the space, the season of the planet has been the same till now." + Read Essay | ||
Zunair Imtiaz "Research on Hyperion has proven that the irregularly shaped satellite has numerous craters filled with a dark reddish substance which are chains of carbon and hydrogen. + Read Essay | ||
Sidra Fatima Naqvi "The two largest moons of Saturn, separated by over millions of kilometers appear in a striking proximity in this photo. Rhea and Titan - one is a frozen ball of ice, the latter mainly rock in its mysterious hazel halo. Such a beautiful contrast intrigues one to learn more about the geological makeup of the moons, and compare it to that of planet Earth's." + Read Essay | ||
Syed Abuzar Mahmud "Saturn holds the position of the most aesthetically pleasing planet in our solar system. Saturn's rings and auroras appear strikingly beautiful through any picture. But what makes Saturn the best option for the Cassini mission are the surprising number of unexplained physical phenomena occurring on the planet." + Read Essay |
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ROMANIA
Ioana Todea "One of the things concerning Hyperion that should be discovered is the object's internal composition of which, too little is known at the present. However its low density indicates that it could be made of ice and a small amount of rocks. So, Hyperion is a solid body." + Read Essay | ||
Raluca Bran "Like other big planets, Saturn has more satellites but the most important ones, in size and not only, are Titan and Rhea. Scientists discovered that Titan is the only satellite from the Solar System which has its own atmosphere made of azoth and methane." + Read Essay | ||
Bianca Necula "Saturn offers the most beautiful view in our entire Solar System due to its rings which are mainly made out of star dust, ice, asteroids leftovers etc. We still don't know the actual age of Saturn's rings." + Read Essay | ||
Alexandra Nicolae and Ioana Ungureanu "To prove his originality Hyperion took an unexplainable sponge form. It was discovered by W. Bond, G. Bond and W. Lassell in 1848, giving them the opportunity to unveil the world's first non-spherical moon. + Read Essay | ||
Teodora Ninu, Sofia Nitoi and Alexandra Radu "From a scientific point of view, target 2 - Rhea and Titan - evinces the most potential for investigation mean. On one hand, the possible origins of life on Terra can be examined with the help of the glaciated, early-Earth conditions perceived on Titan. On the other hand, Rhea is a frozen body surrounded by puzzles such as the existence of rings or of its own weight. + Read Essay | ||
Ana Maria Acostachioaie, Stefania Anghel, Teodora Ginga, Ioana Manole "If we'll go on Saturn we'll be kicked by storms [Like hurrincanes are always present] lighting and rain.The frequency with which they show is the same as it's shown on the Earth and even the fraction of the planet covered by them is similar to that on our planet. + Read Essay | ||
Alice Bancu, Ioana-Diana Gardus and Iulia-Alexandra Sofian "So out of place among Rhea, Titan and Enceladus, Hyperion's sight, caught by the space mission represented a genuine contrast: the first moon with non-ellipsoidal figure, easily mistaken for a meteor by the uninitiated ones, has always raised a couple of curiosities... + Read Essay | ||
Raluca Turcu and Maria Uzum "In ancient times, 'Titan'’ and 'Rhea' were two words with great spiritual valence, being related to mother Earth. Nowadays, the same two names could be the answer to many foremost questions about our origin and about the existence of life on other celestial bodies. + Read Essay | ||
Delia Iulia Gireadă, Mădălina Știrbu, Benedic Ancuța and Radu Irina Ștefania "The true king of the ringed planets, the gas giant Saturn surprises through the different characteristics of the emitted radio waves. The periods of the Saturn kilometric radiation differ at the two poles and the phenomenon could be determined by variations in the high-altitude winds in the two hemispheres. + Read Essay |
TURKEY
Orhan Efe Yavuz "There are two main reasons why Hyperion should be chosen for the next flyby. First, Hyperion's irregular rotation is still a puzzlement for scientists and second it is one of the satellites in the Solar System that can be inhabited by organisms" + Read Essay | ||
Emre Orhan "When I consider the scientific benefits of the three targets of Cassini Spacecraft, I think that Target-3 is the best choice among the others. + Read Essay | ||
Tunahan Sonat "I strongly believe target two would yield the best overall science return. Titan and Rhea offer much to be discovered; we don't have large amounts of information about the extensive features of the two largest moons of Saturn, the planet famous for its rather ostentatious rings." + Read Essay | ||
Esin Meric Kutlay "Another puzzling incident is the fact that Saturn radiates more heat than it gains from the Sun. Cassini has already observed a Kelvin-Helmholtz (K-H) instability on the planet's atmosphere, yet the planet gives out far more heat than K-H principle may explain." + Read Essay | ||
Emre Sunel "I would suggest that Cassini’s cameras be pointed at Rhea and Titan. Many secrets which have been absolutely incredible for mankind, are waiting to be unveiled. " + Read Essay |
UNITED KINGDOM
Molly Anne Clibbett "Research shows that Hyperion is not very dense which suggests that it is made of ice and pockets of trapped gases with only a small amount of rock. Scientists think that this makes the surface of Hyperion easier to crater. Close-up pictures show massive craters probably due to its position on the edge of Saturn's rings which is more liable to space collisions." + Read Essay | ||
Alex McGregor "The tenuous rings of Rhea are the most intriguing to me, if the moon really does have rings orbiting, it will be the first rings about a moon in our solar system. There is evidence for a ring system around Rhea, observed changes in the flow of electrons trapped by Saturn's magnetic field as well as the finding of ultraviolet-bright spots along the equator, believed to be the impacts of orbiting ring material, add up to suggest a ring system orbiting the moon. + Read Essay | ||
Calum Ashcroft "I believe that Saturn is the best choice of destination for the Cassini probe. Following the vernal equinox in August 2009, Saturn's northern hemisphere has moved into spring, which is producing major changes in temperature distribution across the planet. Due to the long Saturn year – equivalent to approximately thirty Earth years – we will only have one opportunity with the Cassini probe to observe the induced changes in atmospheric conditions produced by this change. Hence it is vital to . . . + Read Essay |
VENEZUELA | ||
Team: The Explorers of Hyperion (Grade:5-6) Maracaibo, State of Zulia "Hyperion looks like it has lots of water inside and much more in minerals. So we decided to investigate it and become scientists for a day. + Read Essay | ||
Team: The Dark Matter Group (Grade: 7-8) Maracaibo and Conception, State of Zulia "Cassini will image Rhea to study the moon's geological history. The ultraviolet filter set to see the different layers of media in it, and even the possible interaction of particles between these two moons with some other object of the system as observed with Enceladus and Saturn, which are connected by a loop of electromagnetic particles. + Read Essay | ||
Team: Starlight, Storm and Cave Researchers (Grade: 9-12) Maracaibo and San Francisco, State of Zulia "The characteristics of Hyperion make it an interesting target, due the way the moon's surface develops on analysis of the results of the Cassini's cameras that inspect it , data show irregular morphology as if suffering damage from external agents million of years" + Read Essay |
