Pharaohs Planet

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Planet Earth is facing a major problems which are it is opened to outer space and it is been exposured to solar storms and radiation. And we might need for another Atmosphere to protect planet Earth and Satellites from an event like Carrington event.

So we as a team discussed the possibility to find a necessary case to discover a way to protect the planet from those sun-storms and cosmic storms as all.

METAMATERIALS:

It is smart materials that have wide range of properties different from each other but they are sharing in that they are from artificial origin. Metamaterials are artificial electromagnetic media that are structured on the subwavelength scale. Moreover, they have negative index this means it is very useful in optics and electromagnetism applications. 

So imagine if we make a person, a building or even a city disappear from the planet! Is this possible? Probably you will say "no".  

Scientific research says that metamaterials can prevent each wavelength from passing. When scientists were doing experiment on metamaterials, they were planting the metamaterials under a house to see how can earthquake affect the house with metamaterial under it. The house did not get a scratch and earthquakes passed around the house like it was not there.

Now let us assume metamaterial is around the earth such as ball inside a ball but with enough distance such that it is not falling on our heads. Also rotating around the earth in opposite direction with same velocity as earth so to keep us in safe.

Now when we do this, we will face a lot of challenges.

However we overcome these obstacles by choosing our properties of the metamaterial we will build the metamaterial in a way that it is transparent, elastic and formed in layers.

To begin with, the idea is that metamaterial will protect us from the solar storms and also some of the radiations, and by doing that we solved our initial problem and the main problem one.

Other thing I need to propose is that our satellites will be working in it is full power in the same orbit of earth but inside the metamaterial ball so it is protected and will not be damaged at any circumstances.

Now most probably you start asking yourselves about how we gonna live without sun! 

Actually I said earlier that the metamaterial will be transparent. By doing so, we will not have any problem with the sunlight. Moreover, electromagnetic radiation coming form sun will be entered to deliver heat to the planet. Also while working in this project, our team developed a method to separate radiations so that we can let almost 70% of the heat of our sun enters the atmosphere. And doing so, we are solving the global warming problem. 

In some times we will also face meteoroids, celestial bodies, or space junk coming to the earth and hitting our metamaterial so we made our metamaterial when contacting with these objects, flexible as much as possible to face shocks and send it away. For example, as a bouncing a rubber ball in the wall, coming to you again after crashing the wall. 

Another situation is how to go into the outer space. We looked for a way to figure out how to get out through these metamaterials. So to configure out that we said it is very complexed technique but we managed to control that. By splitting the metamaterial and leave it like it is cut so that we can control closing and opening. Then we will need to put magnets between the layers in our metamaterial and close on them with the metamaterial, so that they are not exposed to any outer issues. While it is between the surfaces the magnets pull each other so it will not look like as it is splitted. Then, our spaceships will have around it a very powerful electric source, so when it reaches to the magnets, the magnetism power will be very weak and it will metamaterial will be opened. 

Last but not least, this project is extremely costly but not impossible. It will make the whole planet work on this project as it is very huge. One of the minor problems we discussed that it will need periodic maintenance every while.

In the end, I can say your limitation is only your imagination.

The European Space Agency:

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/This_week_we_re_under_the_space_weather

NASA Official website:

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/10mar_stormwarning.html

We used the various platforms from the sources on the sites to find out how Carrington happened and what will happen if another event like Carrington could do to Earth and satellites. We found that scientists warned of a strong solar storm that is the strongest in more than 50 years.

That prediction was from a team affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If this is true, the coming years could result in a wave of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958. This, in turn, will greatly negatively affect Earth, our satellites, and astronauts' journeys to Mars and outer space on various space missions.

Our journey working with NASA. NASA SpaceApps has been inspiring, informative and filled with a lot of experience. Participating in the NASA SpaceApps Challengs we learned a lot over the course of the work from announcing the challenges on the official NASA website to the competition's presentation on the second day of the hackathon. What our team learned the most was to collaborate and work in a one-person and one-team spirit. We benefited from the experience of other teams in their different fields of science such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, space sciences and others, as well as from their projects and their different way of thinking. Our team had chosen the “Save the Earth from Another Carrington Event” challenge because we are aware of the great danger that surrounds us if a solar storm hits the planet, and the catastrophes that could ensue for all of humanity. Our team has been constantly developing, researching and trying to link all the information together in order to find a solution to all the challenges that we faced during the period of working on the project in a correct and logical scientific manner that matches already published scientific research in the field of protection that we resorted to using, which is metamaterials. We also try to make the effort to modify the project to reach the most accurate result through the progress of the research process.

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