High-Level Project Summary
We tried using images from Parker Solar Probe and Gaia telescopes to create a 3D visualization tool to see the sun weather. Unfortunatlely we did not solve the challenge, mainly for technical difficulties regarding javascript programming and the time limit of the event.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The magnetic field were supposed to be plotted using theoretical approximations, and the intensity represented by thicker lines in space. The suns texture was to be duplicated and orthogonally projected onto the suns surface from the images provided by the satellite. The satellite model was given by NASA and the user was supposed to be able to see the sun from the satellite perspective.
Space Agency Data
We mainly used this pages:
- https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
- https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/parker-solar-probe/in-depth/
Hackathon Journey
We learned that making a good visualization tool is hard. And that we are not very good javascript developers. But we had some fun trying to tackle the problem and investigating about the phenomenon. We probably spend half the time of this challenge just researching how it actually works (and it is very cool), and most of the remaining half was just debugging code.
References
- Earths, Sun factsheet. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html
Solar weather and the satellite
- https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/308/space-weather-to-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html#q25
- https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe
- https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/real-time-solar-wind
- https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/space-weather-overview
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/X-class-flares.html
- http://spaceweather.at.fcen.uba.ar/2/c_magnetico.html#:~:text=El%20%C3%ADndice
Trying to model magnetic fields
- http://laplace.us.es/wiki/index.php/Im%C3%A1n_esf%C3%A9rico
- http://www.scielo.org.bo/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1562-38232009000100008
- https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/geospace-geomagnetic-activity-plot
- https://wdc.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/wdc/Sec3.html
Programming
- https://threejs.org/docs/index.html