{"id":310,"date":"2013-01-30T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2013-01-30T19:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:26:18","slug":"titan-europa-essay-contest-grades-5-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Titan & Europa essay contest – Grades 5-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a message from the\u00a0 Titan and Icy Worlds\u00a0 Education and Public Outreach Teams<\/a> at NASA JPL:<\/p>\n

Dear Teachers and Students,<\/p>\n

NASA is holding an essay contest about Saturn’s moon Titan & Jupiter’s moon Europa for students in the United States in grades 5-12.<\/p>\n

.The contest deadline is February 28, 2013. \u00a0The contest website is here: \u00a0http:\/\/icyworlds.jpl.nasa.gov\/contest\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Questions about the Titan & Europa essay contest can be sent to: titaneuropa@jpl.nasa.gov.<\/p>\n

The topic of the Titan & Europa essay is either a mission to Saturn’s moon Titan\u00a0or\u00a0to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Both of these missions would study a world that is exciting for astrobiologists(*).Your assignment is to decide which of the proposed missions would be more interesting to you, and why. Be creative, be original, and ask good questions that you hope the mission would answer.<\/p>\n

The Titan mission would include a Titan orbiter and a Titan balloon. The Europa mission would include a Europa orbiter and a Europa lander. The orbiters, balloon, and lander would each have science instruments to study either Titan or Europa.<\/p>\n

In your essay, you can include information about what science instruments you would put on the orbiter and balloon or lander, if you wish, based on what you hope to find on Titan or Europa.<\/p>\n

Winning essays will be posted on a NASA website, and winners and their classes will be invited to participate in a videoconference or teleconference with NASA scientists.<\/p>\n

Contest videos about Astrobiology, Titan, and Europa can be found here:
\nhttp:\/\/icyworlds.jpl.nasa.gov\/contest\/videos\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(*) Astrobiologists are scientists who study the origins, evolution, future and distribution of life in the universe. The main question astrobiologists are trying to answer is: “Is there life beyond Earth?”<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n

Best wishes,
\nThe Titan and Icy Worlds NASA Astrobiology Institute Education and Public Outreach Teams
\ntitaneuropa@jpl.nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a message from the\u00a0 Titan and Icy Worlds\u00a0 Education and Public Outreach Teams at NASA JPL: Dear Teachers and Students, NASA is holding an essay contest about Saturn’s moon Titan & Jupiter’s moon Europa for students in the United States in grades 5-12. .The contest deadline is February 28, 2013. \u00a0The contest website is … Continue reading Titan & Europa essay contest – Grades 5-12<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-50","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14523,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14523","url_meta":{"origin":310,"position":0},"title":"Snapshots from deep space: Jupiter’s many colors, kinks in Saturn’s rings, & clouds on Titan","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Some recent imagery from NASA spacecraft: **\u00a0Jupiter\u2019s Clouds of Many Colors | NASA\u00a0 (Click for larger image) NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on May 19, 2017, from about 29,100 miles (46,900 kilometers) above the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Europa, Titan, & other deep space sites"","block_context":{"text":"Europa, Titan, & other deep space sites","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=98"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pia21392_344x800.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11198,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11198","url_meta":{"origin":310,"position":1},"title":"Video: Titan’s lakes","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A SETI Institute seminar about\u00a0the lakes on Saturn's exotic moon Titan: What do we know about the composition, surface, depth and distribution of liquid on Saturn's largest moon, Titan? 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