International Edition Winners -- 2009
International Edition Winners -- 2009
BRAZIL Laura de Freitas Sommer Escola Santo Tomás de Aquino Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais "Gostaria muito que vocês mirassem o satélite para os anéis de Saturno para aprendermos mais sobre eles. Sabemos que Saturno é o segundo maior planeta do sistema solar, que ele é muito famoso e é considerado a maravilha do sistema solar por causa dos seus anéis." + Read More |
Rodrigo Maciel Selmo Colegio Santa Maria Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo "Titã, nome grego dado a seres gigantescos, faz jus ao seu nome, sendo o segundo maior satélite do sistema solar (menor apenas que o satélite jupteriano Ganimedes), maior que o planeta Mercúrio e apenas 25% menor do que Marte." + Read More |
Guthyerrz Maciel da Silva Lord of Bomfim Bayeux, Paraíba "A lua Tétis e os anéis de saturno devem ser escolhidos, pois, essa foto irá alcançar dois objetivos em uma só foto. Que é revelar alguns mistérios sobre os anéis de saturno e ao mesmo tempo sobre a lua Tétis. Ela também irá ajudar os cientistas a descobrir as causas do anel F sofrer constantes mudanças. " + Read More |
Romário Lima da Silva PRO-JOVEM Project – Campos Escola Municipal Dr. Luiz Sobral Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro "Com base nos estudos feitos, os anéis de saturno são constituídos essencialmente por uma mistura de gelo, poeiras e material rochoso.A origem dos anéis é desconhecida tornando assim muito mais interessante o estudo sobre os anéis." + Read More |
Fernanda Carvalho Pereira and Jardel Lucas Maia Viana Terra Prometida – CIEP Pedro Álvares Cabral, Brejo Grande Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro "A lua que conhecemos em nossa infância deitava em um manto prateado e brincava de esconde-esconde com o sol. Sabia ser tímida em dias de chuva e se mostrava alegre depois de uma orquestra afinada de cigarras para anunciar um lindo dia na manhã seguinte." + Read More |
Blenda Kelly Ferreira PRO-JOVEM Project Campos – Colégio Estadual 29 de Maio Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro "Além de toda atmosfera densa e nebulosa Titã é muito envolvente, primeiro pelo nome que recebeu , que é de origem grega , depois pelas descobertas que já foram feitas através das naves e pela sonda que foram enviadas até a lua Titã." + Read More |
CANADA Karen Butt 9th grade Westmount, Quebec "Cassini should point its cameras at Target 3, Titan. This moon has proven to be very interesting, but there is still much more to find out. Scientists have discovered many similarities between Titan and Earth. It is even believed that it resembles the Earth before life evolved there. " + Read More |
CHINA Ai Zhang Senior; Undergraduate Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) "I am an undergraduate student who decides to take a further study in Ph.D. program in image processing. The beautiful colors of Saturn’s ring fascinate me a lot. In my opinion, taking gorgeous pictures of Saturn and its rings in choice one is the best choice." + Read More |
Tian-Lin Wang First year of graduate study for master degree Fudan University "Saturn’s magnetosphere and atmosphere are significant subjects in Saturn research. Moons of Saturn, such as Titan, Tethys, are also interesting problems in discussion." + Read More |
Xiaoye Han Senior Undergraduate Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) "The most important reason that I adhere to target three is that Titan resembles Earth several billion years ago." + Read More |
Liu Yiwei 4th Year Undergraduate Sun Yat-sen University "Inside every soul, there is a wonderland, with the most amazing impossibilities. I have always felt that Titan is that of mine. Therefore, I will vote with all my fingers and tows for Titan to be the main object observed by Cassini." + Read More |
Deng Yongting Grade 2 Undergraduate Sichuan University "One's banal speculation that whether the Saturn will transform into a sun-like planet is of no significance. Although it may happen 30 billion years later, it is thought to be a splendid subject study among the astronomical circle." + Read More |
INDIA -- GRADE 5 and 6 Sai Vinay 6th Grade St.Mathew’s Public School, Vijayawada "Saturn is one of the most beautiful planets in solar system with rings surrounding its girth exhibiting brilliant hues. My target for the observation would be Saturn and its rings." + Read More |
M. Ram Pranav 6th Grade St. Paul’s High School "Right from Galileo in whose honor this year we celebrate international year of astronomy, ancient astronomers always wondered about rings. Particularly A ring which was most popular. By choosing this target and using instruments on the spacecraft I will learn more than what ancient observers did about special features of A ring and F ring." + Read More |
J. Vishnu Priya 6th Grade KLR Techno Kids School "Titan is rich and complex world which still holds many mysteries, researches are continuing to monitor the surface as the seasons change to see if new lakes form or old ones evaporate and are searching for additional evidence that cryvolcanoes that is volcanoes erupting rock water, ammonium or methane instead of molten lava are active on the surface." + Read More |
M. Bharath 7th Grade KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO.1, TIRUPATI "The planet Saturn is a spectacular one among all other planets in our solar system. The rings add more flavor to its beauty." + Read More |
Meghana Gudluru |
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INDIA: Grade 9 to 10 E. Radhe Shyam 9th grade C.R.P.F. Public School "Studying the rings of Saturn may prove beneficial. The spokes of the Saturn may be the ice particles arranged in an narrow belt which illumine when sun’s rays follow on them." + Read More |
Ch. Bhaskar 10th grade Bhasyam School "Tethys possesses mysteries that could be solved if it becomes Cassini's image target. Relatively recent craters on Tethys surface have brighter coloration than surrounding areas." + Read More |
K. Sushmitha Sri 10th grade Narayana Olympiad School "Titan resembles Earth in it's geographical features. It has an atmosphere like earth and it is still more denser than that of earth's atmosphere." + Read More |
Syed Yasin Shahtaz Emanee 12th grade Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya, Golaghat, Assam. "The likelihood of Tethys adding to the Ring System makes it especially valuable since this forms an interesting system of a satellite interacting with what are perhaps debris of an earlier satellite(s)." + Read More |
Rohin Vajawat 12th Grade International School of Hyderabad "Our limited understanding of the Titan's surface is because of this atmosphere that is so thick that the existing optical devices are unable to capture images of the surface and other geographical features." + Read More |
IRAN Amir Reza Kamkar Secondary School "Saturn has been an attractive planet for humanity throughout the history, from the ancient cosmologists who knew it as the last planet, to Galileo who observed Saturn with an elliptic shape with his small hand-made telescope, to today’s scientists who send probes to increase their knowledge of Saturn, its moons, and mysteries around this marvelous planet." + Read More |
Kasra Mokhtarpour High School "I choose Tethys and Saturn Rings as the next photographing target of Cassini spacecraft, because I believe this target will bring new information, considering the facts that Saturn itself has been the subject of different missions previously and also photographs of Titan can not show the terrain because of the thick atmosphere." + Read More |
IRELAND Finn Bradley Age: 11-14 Dublin, Ireland "There are a number of reasons I chose this target. Firstly because there were only two flybys of Tethys so far and there is so much more to discover and so many mysteries to solve there." + Read More |
NEPAL Abinish Kumar Dutt Grade: 12th Maitighar Kathmandu "Observing the pattern of photochemical reactions on Titan's haze could give us informations, approaches similar to which we could apply on the early Earth's haze to know things about Earth's chemistry better." + Read More |
THE NETHERLANDS Ype de Groot, Mike Brockbernd and Paul Lemmens Het Sint Maartenscollege -- Maastricht "Saturn is one of the most special planets in our solar system. When Galileo Galilei looked trough his handmade telescope at Saturn, he saw this planet in threefold. He described this appearance as handles, ansae. The Dutchman Huygens proved 50 years later that these ansae were the rings of Saturn. That's one of the reasons why Saturn is a special planet. The other reason why Saturn is special, is his moon Titan." + Read More |
ROMANIA Luca Istodor Berceanu Slavomir "Acad. Nicolae Teodorescu" -- Prof. Mihaela Mariana Badea Bucaresti "I dont know what van Gogh dreamt about when glazing at the sky, but I know Saturns rings truly fascinate me." + Read More |
Kis Melania, Vanessa Popescu, Beatrice Toader and Natalia Todoran Age: 12 - 13; Prof. Szatmari Aurora-Dorina Nicolae Balcescu School -- Oradea, Romania "Natalia took notes in a notebook: atmosphere of hydrogen, helium and other small scale elements. Beatrice made a hole in the ground with a type of laser. It seems that Saturn's internal structure consists of a core of rock and ice, surrounded by a thick layer of metallic hydrogen in a gaseous outer layer." + Read More |
SAUDI ARABIA Safa Fazal Haque Grade: 7 - 8, Middle East International School Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "Titan has a thick layer of methane, ethane and nitrogen all around it which obstructs the study of its surface, just like Venus. But the Cassini Spaceship has succeeded in finding out what lies beneath this thick blanket of gases." + Read More |
Ashaab Alam 12th grade -- International Indian School Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "The study of Saturn and its Rings, if successful, would no doubt take us another step in the ultimate human space exploration and with the help of Cassini Spacecraft this mission looks closer to accomplishment." + Read More |
Fazal Ahmed |
UNITED KINGDOM Mary Reader Age: 14-16 (tie) Ardingly College, West Sussex "Surprisingly, it rains on Titan, due to the accumulation of smog chemicals, such as methane and ethane that precipitate a "gasoline-like" substance. A third of Titan's surface appears to reveal mountain ranges, dunes, lakes, rivers and volcanoes." + Read More |
Richard Thorburn Age: 14-16 (tie) Lingfield Notre Dame School "Titan is the only other body in the solar system to be shown to have large bodies of stable liquid on its surface, apart from the Earth, and its surface is also geologically young, meaning that it presents a possible picture of what the Earth may have been like in earlier stages of its formation." + Read More |
Charles Board Age: 16-18 West Sussex "The atmosphere itself appears to contain many hydrocarbons, ranging from simple alkanes, to complex polycyclic aromatic compounds. The more complex compounds probably form from the methane and ethane being converted by sunlight." + Read More |
Christina Larkin Age: 16-18 Belfast "I believe that Target 3, Saturn's moon Titan, would be of the most scientific value. This is because Titan, although a moon, actually appears more like a planet." + Read More |
VENEZUELA Gabriela Machado Moreno Grado: Séptimo / Sección: C Unidad Educativa Colegio Emil Friedman "Desde que Galileo en 1610, observó los brillantes anillos de Saturno, los |
ZAMBIA Farhin Akberali Age: 14 Lechwe Trust School, Kitwe "Titan!!! When you look at Saturn through any telescope, all you can see is Saturn's day side and the sunlit part of its rings." + Read More |
Lweendo E.J Hachamba Age: 15 Mpelembe High School, Kitwe "I decided to write about Saturn because it is a unique planet having the potential to bring positive change to man’s life if probed more." + Read More |
