Contest: 2019-20
Alejandra Sánchez, Miguel Blázquez, Stefany Adrian, Daniela Montiel, Franco Villalobos, Jacobo Cruz, Diego Aponte, Natale di Martino, Thomas Acurero, David Andres Gonzales, Michelle di Martino
Schools: Colegio Antonio Rosmini, Liceo Los Robles, Colegio Nuestra Señora del Pilar
City: Maracaibo
Professor: Patrick Morton
Topic: Charon
"Charon is a mystery we propose to solve, it's frozen surface attracted our attention, just the same as other intriguing details and it's discussed origin, its unknown internal composition and its peculiar crack surface. It’s diameter is about 1208 km2, a little more than Pluto’s, the planet it orbits.A theory to explain it’s formation is that an asteroid from Kuiper’s belt teared off a part of Pluto, forming Charon as a result, but, since Pluto is made of nitrogen and methane, and Charon is principally made by ice of water,¿would it mean this theory is invalid?
- DCAM 3
- STAR TRACKERS
- NIRS3 (Near Infrared Spectrometer)
- Reentry capsule
- Minerva-ll-1 (small solar-powered surface hopper)
- LIDAR (laser altimeter)
- Minerva-ll-2
- Sample Horn
- Target Markers
- SCI (small carry-on Impactor)
- TIR (Thermal Infrared Imager)
- CAM-H (Small monitoring Camera)
- ONC-T (Optical Navigation Camera-Telescopic)
- Mascot
- ONC-W2 (Optical Navigation Camera-wide angle)
- ONC-W1 (Optical Navigation Camera-wide angle)
More instruments and optimized ones should be added. And we’d like to add instruments that would be more economic and convenient for the study of Charon, due to it's frozen surface, it's cryo-geysers and the possibility of life underneath. If it’s decided to send a module to Charon we suggest it should be as stated before, economic, thus we think that it should be unable to move, for it's not needed."