NASA is proud to announce the 2014 Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest. The Cassini spacecraft launched in October 1997 has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. NASA encourages you to join them in celebrating Cassini’s 10-year anniversary orbiting Saturn with a special edition of the essay contest.
Titan is a really inspiring world because, it is the sole purpose of the most captivating mission in the whole history of Solar System Exploration: The Cassini-Huygens mission. This mission consisted of two parts: one, the Huygens landing probe and two, the Cassini launching probe.In a previous mission, NASA sent the Cassini space probe to study this moon. The probe flew through the icy jets of water in Enceladus' southern pole and helped us learn more about the features of this moon.NASA Portal This site is maintained by the Planetary Science Communications team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Director, NASA Planetary Science Division: Dr. Lori Glaze.
Scientist for a Day - Home. Continuing in the tradition started by the Cassini mission to Saturn, Scientist for a Day challenges students in grades 5-12 to think like NASA scientists. Examine real spacecraft images of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, Saturn’s moon Titan, and Jupiter’s moon Europa.
The Cassini spacecraft launched in October 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since 2004. NASA encourages you to join them in celebrating Cassini’s 10-year anniversary orbiting Saturn with a special edition of the essay contest. The 2014 Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest is open to students in grades 5-12. Essays must be under 500 words.
Students must write a 500-word essay on why the image they chose would be the most scientifically rich for Cassini's cameras to take. Essays will be judged by a panel of Cassini scientists, mission planners, and by the JPL education and outreach team. Winners will be invited to discuss their essays with JPL Cassini scientists via teleconference.
Zade Akras ’18 and Vikash Modi ’18 were recently named winners of the NASA Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest.
The Cassini Scientist for a Day contest challenges students from class 5-12 to become NASA scientists studying Saturn. Participants examine three possible observations taken by the Cassini spacecraft and are tasked to choose the one they think will yield the best scientific results. This choice must then be supported in essay.
Nine students in the age group of 10 to 18 years from India, four of them from Gujarat, have been declared winners in an international Cassini Scientists for a Day Essay Contest 2012 organised by.
Tag: High School Student Opportunity. The deadline for the 2012 Cassini Scientist for a Day essay contest is now two weeks away. There’s still time for your students to write essays for the contest.. Winning entries will be posted on NASA’s Cassini website. Winners and their classes will be invited to participate in a teleconference.
The prompt for the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory essay contest was to justify the spacecraft Cassini's target: Saturn's rings and moons, Jupiter, or Rhea and Tethys.
Essays will be judged by a panel of Cassini scientists, mission planners, and by the JPL education and outreach team. Winners will be invited to discuss their essays with JPL Cassini scientists.
The 2012 edition of the 'Cassini Scientist for a Day' competition is now open to entry from students. The competition is designed to give the participants a taste of life as a scientist. Students are invited to submit a 500-word essay explaining their choice of one of three targets to be imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.
Students from across Europe have been selected as winners of the Cassini Scientist for a Day 2012 competition. Coordinated by ESA, national competitions were held in several European countries, including Poland, Spain and Greece, with more than 1000 entries. An equivalent competition was run by NASA for schools in the US.
The 2015 edition of the 'Cassini Scientist for a Day' competition is now open to entries by students. The competition is designed to give the participants a taste of life as a space scientist. Students are invited to submit a 500-word essay explaining their choice of one of three targets to be imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.
The Cassini Outreach Team of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is being organizing a brilliant school contest in Astronomy focusing in the Saturnian system. This essay contest provides school.
NASA's 2015-16 Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest Deadline is February 26, 2016. There's still time to enter! For contest rules, videos about each essay topic, a downloadable contest flyer, frequently asked questions, and more information, visit.