Don’t miss the chance to send your experiment to the stratosphere with #SERVETVI!!
There is still time to sign up your class for #ServetVI with this form and to develop your scientific project together, ready to send it to the stratosphere in spring 2022. You have until 26 November.
If you like the idea of working on this project in the classroom but are not sure what to do, here are some pointers:
– For the moment, you only have to briefly describe your idea in the pre-registration form. It doesn’t need to be exhaustive, just tell us what you would like to study, your motivation… There will be time during the school year to work on the project if it is selected, and you will have our technical and methodological support.
– Your project can be technological or scientific, or both. All the launch logistics and technology are on us; you won’t have to worry about launching the balloons… One of the 10 places reserved for projects is for you.
– Need inspiration? Here are some of the projects recently carried out during the #SERVETV launches:
A young citizen scientist presented this project to us:
In our mission we are going to analyse how different liquids react when their density and temperature change,… outside the test tubes, which are not thermally insulated.
Inside the polystyrene probe we will put an Easypix GoXtreme Rebel camera (50 grams).
Approximate weight:
- Test tubes (5): 41.6 grams
- Probe: 210 grams
- Camera: 50 grams
- 301 grams in total
Another was the “Potato experiment”, and this is how its promoter presented it to us:
Let’s set the scene. (The film “”The Martian”” 2015) Matt Damon is surviving on Mars thanks to a potato crop. (in 2017 it was already shown to be viable). Then tragedy strikes: an explosive decompression freezes all the plants in the garden… The plants, yes, but… what about the potatoes? This tuber does not tolerate low temperatures well, but they do not kill it instantly. Is it possible that, had at least part of the potatoes been harvested, they would have been viable and the Martian garden could have been recovered?
Near-space conditions are relatively similar to those on the Martian surface.
The proposal is:
Send up one or more tubers to endure the conditions of low temperature, low pressure and radiation for a few hours, recover them and test whether, when cultivated, any has survived and grows into a plant again with new potatoes. The probe will carry at least two Dallas sensors, one inserted into one of the potatoes, and a UV sensor and a barometer that will take samples so we can later work out how long the potato or potatoes were enduring the extreme conditions.
You no longer have any excuse not to sign up your class for #SERVETVI. We await your proposals until 26 November. Don’t hesitate to sign up through the pre-registration form.
If you need more information, visit servet.ibercivis.es