Do you love making art and using your imagination? So do we! Every NASA mission starts with a creative idea about how to explore something in a new way.
The art challenge:
In this new activity, we’d like to challenge young explorers to think about and draw a space-related situation each month. And after the month is over, we’ll select a few imaginative drawings to be featured on the NASA Space Place website!
So, get ready to exercise that creative brain of yours! Here’s what you’ll need:
- Paper
- Art supplies (pencils, markers, crayons, paints – whatever you like to use)
- A grownup helper with a camera or scanner and access to email
Space Place art challenge prompt:
Do you know about NASA’s farthest traveling space explorers? They are two spacecraft named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The Voyagers launched 45 years ago in August and September of 1977. In that time they explored much of our solar system–and beyond!
An artist’s rendering of one of the Voyager spacecraft. Credit: NASA
These spacecraft took pictures of Jupiter’s clouds and Saturn’s rings, and even faraway Neptune. Now they have traveled so far that they are in the space between the stars, called interstellar space. And they’re still sending information back to Earth today!
Learn more about these spacecraft in our article about Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
Curious about interstellar space? Check out our video about where the solar system ends!
The art challenge: If you were going to send a spacecraft to explore our solar system and beyond, what would it look like? What would its name be? Draw your interstellar robotic explorer and submit it to our art challenge!
Submit your drawings between 8/20/22 and 9/30/22. Selected art submissions will appear on the website during the first week of October!
How to submit your art:
Once you’ve gotten your ideas on the page, have a grownup take a photo or scan of the drawing and email the following to NASAKidsArt@jpl.nasa.gov:
- Picture of drawing
- First name of artist
- Age of artist
- Completed release form (download here)*
That’s it! Have fun creating and we can’t wait to see your drawings!
This Month's Art Challenge Selections
Create a game based on NASA’s Psyche mission. Show us with pictures!
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