Cassini Scientist for a Day
Singapore Edition
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Cassini Scientist for a Day 2012
TARGETS
Introduction
Target 2: F Ring
Target 1: Pan
Target 3: Saturn
WINNERS
Winner - Celine Espanol (BPGHS)
Target: Pan
"The natural processes that occur within the F ring can give scientists a glimpse into the mechanisms at work in the early solar system, as planets and moons coalesced out of disks of debris..."
Winner - Prinita Mukherjee (BPGHS)
Target: Saturn
"These images will also help scientists answer questions on Earth's weather cycle as Earth's surface has large land masses and oceans, complicating the weather patterns while Saturn's unmarred surface provides an apt model for studying circulation patterns and the atmosphere."
Honorable Mentions:
Huang Wei
Tommy Tai
DHS
BPGHS
Cassini Explorer Award 2012
Bukit Panjang Government High School
VIDEO CONFERENCE
Speakers
Dr. Allan Y. Lee
Spacecraft Engineer, NASA
Allan Y. Lee received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University. From 1989 until today, he works on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan. For more than 20 years, he supported the design, build, test, launch, and mission operations of the spacecraft. He has also supported other interplanetary missions including the Mars Science Laboratory, Galileo Jupiter mission, Deep Impact, Kepler, Mars Odyssey, and Dawn (exploration of the asteroids Vesta and Ceres).
He was awarded two NASA exceptional service medals. He has also authored and coauthored more than 60 journal and conference papers, and two book chapters in engineering, technology, and applied science.
Dr. Santo Salinas
Planetary Scientist, NUS
Dr. Santo is a senior research scientist at the Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) at NUS, specializing in atmospheric radiation, atmospheric and ocean optics and remote sensing. He was formerly at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Aeronomy (MPAe) which is now known as Max-Planck-Institut fur Sunnensystemfurschung, located in Germany, where he specialized in radiative transfer and planetary atmospheres.
He is also Singapore's co-PI for NASA's Sun-photometer network AERONET as well as co-participant of NASA's Micro-pulse lidar network MPLNET. He maintains an atmospheric radiation supersite in collaboration with NASA/NRL as well as being an active member of the 7 Southeast Asian Studies (7SEAS) programme.
Mr. Noah Hammond
Planetary Scientist, Brown University
Noah is a PhD student at Brown University, studying the icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn with Prof. Amy Barr. He had previously worked at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute where he studied the topography of Saturn's icy moons Rhea and Dione.
He gained his B.Sc in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of Santa Cruz, and is an enthusiastic Science educator and communicator. Check out some of his work on Saturn's moons here!