3000 drawings for CHEOPS space mission on the Web

Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) Children in Switzerland and all over Europe made thousands of imaginative drawings of stars, planets, rockets, satellites, and aliens. 3000 entries to the drawing campaign organised by the University of Bern will fly into space with CHEOPS, a space telescope being built in collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Switzerland. You can now have a look at the drawings on an interactive map of Europe on the Web. The circle with its wide ring clearly represents a planet like Saturn, distant stars are in the background, and the rocket in front has just lit the engines to leave Earth, which is well characterized by its continents: The girl from Geneva and the boy from Zurich, both nine years old, drew creative but also accurate pictures of space, as well as the twelve year old girl from Bern and the thirteen year old boy from Basel/Reinach, who also prominently featured the CHEOPS (Characterising ExOPlanets Satellite ) satellite in their landscapes of celestial bodies - four of 888 Swiss drawings that are now on display on the CHEOPS homepage together with more than 2000 contributions from other European countries. In the next six months, the department of applied Informatics and Technics of the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Burgdorf will miniaturise and engrave the drawings on two metal plaques that will fly into space. For this, the plaques will be attached to the CHEOPS satellite by a prominent representative of the confederation a few months before launch.