High-Level Project Summary
The Space Weather is little known by the community because it is difficult to understand and it is almost invisible, so normal people can’t see it and t they don't even know of its existence. Our mission for Nasa App Challenge was to make a simple app to make these people to understand the Space Weather in a very simple way and to accomplish that we add text and video explanations .
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
what exactly does it do?
Our application brings NASA’s data in front of the people’s eyes. We created a simple app that help normal people to understand how space weather works, and simplify the data given by NASA that allows our infrastructure to easily gain access to solar wind temperature, speed, strength of the magnetic field, magnetic field polar angle and Aurora prediction, Not only that, users can also learn about these data by watching a tutorial video or by pressing on the data card which will describe what these data are.
How does it work?
Once the users clicked into the app, they will see a page where are displayed all the sun data like videos of the sun seen in different frequencies, solar wind speed, solar wind temperature and other stuff.
the user can press on the data card and he will learn more about these information, to accomplish that the app will display a modal with short explaining.
the user can change the sun texture by choosing a frequency and if the user doesn't know what these color are we add some explanations with real life example.
to give more helpful explanations we add on the Learn page a video which explaining how the space weather works.
the user can see the aurora prediction in real time by pressing on the tab bar button.
Simple Layout:
short explanations:
Source Code:
https://github.com/LuccaGugescu/AstroWeather-frontEnd
Available for all platforms:
by using capacitor js we can convert our react and ionic project to mobile and desktop
Space Agency Data
In order to provide simple and useful information to the general public, we design a multi-platform app(web, ios, android, windows, mac os, linux ...) to provide easy-understand data for the users. NASA SDO web service provides a wide variety of accurate images and videos associated with sun information that fits our project very well. We use the NOAA service to get all the data we need related to the solar wind, The data is then processed and visualized in the app that is programmed in React and Ionic.
Hackathon Journey
This Space Apps Challenge really makes our bond together.
During this competition our team were losing energies because of the amount of work, but with high motivation we overcome this problem and we finished what we started.
Our team has the oppurtunity to work with different technologies like react and ionic which no one in our team has ever experienced but this wasn't a problem for our team because we mastered it quickly.
References
Resources:
technologies:
React documentation (https://reactjs.org/)
Ionic documentation (https://ionicframework.com/)
capacitor documentation (https://capacitorjs.com/)
data:
sun videos with different frequency view: https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
aurora prediction: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
solar wind data: https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-wind/mag-5-minute.json
solar wind data: https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-wind/plasma-5-minute.json
Tags
#app, #solar, #impact, #nasa, #react, #data, #collaboration, #problemsolving, #teamwork