Online Competition Update
As some of you might be aware of, spacEurope, in association with the Phoenix Mars Mission Outreach Program, is hosting an online competition focusing on what will be like the landscape that Phoenix will see when open its eyes on May 25.
You can read more about it here.
The reason for this update is to get things into place, organizing some items and clarifying some aspects of the competition.
So…here we go…
Timeline
Works started being accepted on April 2 and the deadline to send your participation is fixed at 11:59PM UTC of May 18.
Each author may send a maximum of two works, any technique is accepted into competition as long as you are able to photograph the final result and send it to spacEurope’s mailbox, in *.jpg format with a minimum 300dpis of resolution.
With the works you must send your name, age, city, country. We ask you also to give a title to your work.
The jury will then, between 00:00AM UTC May 19 and 11:59PM UTC May 23, evaluate your pieces of Martian arctic and vote, deliberating who are the winners on two different categories: -12, the ones completing 12 years until 11:59PM UTC May 24, and +12, the ones completing 12 starting on 00:00AM UTC May 25.
Who’s the jury?
As indicated in the opening post of the competition, this one is composed by spacEurope’s crew: Rui Borges, its editor, Lewis Dartnell, the blog’s resident astrobiologist, Nicholas Previsich, responsible for the “The Dream Unfolds” column, and Stuart Atkinson, also a resident columnist, in charge of the “Through the Clouds to the Stars” section, beyond us, there is someone directly linked to the mission, Carla Bitter, Education and Public Outreach Manager for the Phoenix Mission, but also, time permitting, Mark Lemmon, Phoenix Scout Mission Co-Investigator, SSI Lead, will help us deciding.
The prizes are as follow…(EDITED due to a copy paste mistake...):
-12 – 1st Prize: A book (yet to be decided among the competition jury…EDITED: Already decided...Stuart Atkinson, spacEurope's crew member, member of the jury and also an author as kindly made a copy of one of his books available) + a mission poster signed by Phoenix’s Principal Investigator, Peter Smith + a mission t-shirt
- 2nd Prize - A mission poster signed by Phoenix’s Principal Investigator, Peter Smith
- 3rd Prize – A mission poster signed by Phoenix’s Principal Investigator, Peter Smith
+12 - 1st Prize: Our resident astrobiologist’s book: Life in the Universe: A Begginers Guide, signed by the author, Lewis Dartnell + a mission poster signed by Phoenix’s Principal Investigator, Peter Smith + a mission t-shirt
- 2nd Prize - A mission poster signed by Phoenix’s Principal Investigator, Peter Smith
- 3rd Prize – A mission poster signed by Phoenix’s Principal Investigator, Peter Smith
spacEurope will contact the winners, to request an address to where the prizes can be sent, before the public announcement of the results, these will be made public during May 24, the day before the landing of the Phoenix.
We are counting with you!
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