High-Level Project Summary
Interactive web application developed with the aim of bringing information about space weather, especially solar wind, to the general public in a friendly, fun and simple way. Representing the data through sounds, colors, animations and easy-to-understand texts, extracted from different sources, mainly those provided by the Parker Solar Probe.Contributing effectively to the fight against disinformation and alarmism that surround these issues and the problems that arise from them.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our project is based on solar wind data samples through the development of a web application.
By accessing the website, through different options displayed on it, the user is able to obtain information about the phenomenon such as temperature, speed, density, etc. through accessible controls.
The information is organized by a calendar, where the data is extracted from a database.
The benefits it has is that the information is displayed through an intuitive panel, which is shown by colors, sounds, etc.
We hope to make it possible for anyone to be able to obtain this information in an accessible, creative and intuitive way.
Space Agency Data
For the project we used data from the ACE space weather station (Advanced Composition Explorer), which provides data about space weather activity, highlighting that it is one of the oldest stations and that it still provides this data, since August 2000. We opted for the monthly format of data, with samples every 1 hour and variables of Proton Density, Bulk Speed and Ion Temperature of the solar wind, considering this data sufficient to achieve our goal.
ACE Real-Time Solar Wind | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
Hackathon Journey
Wonderful weekend experience.
We ended up tired but very satisfied with our work despite the various setbacks we had.
A multidisciplinary and very capable team that became very good friends!
Without a doubt, we learned a lot and we are anxiously awaiting the next edition.
phanie Powell (language reviewer) for the unique opportunity to participate in this event.
References
Grafics Fonts
Animations: https://lottiefiles.com/
density icon by Изображения пользователя Gunay Aliyeva - Canva https://www.canva.com/icons/MAE2U8UdNbM-density-icon/
illustration of thermometer by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay - Canva https://www.canva.com/icons/MAEGkNq2azE-illustration-of-thermometer/
speed gradient icon by amethyststudio - Canva https://www.canva.com/icons/MAEqsnigOe4-speed-gradient-icon/
GPS location pin by iconpix - Canva https://www.canva.com/icons/MAEd_aW7laY-gps-location-pin/
calendar by Google Design Icons - Canva https://www.canva.com/icons/MAA9py6o7Ng-calendar/
Videos
https://www.renderforest.com/es/video-editing/movie-trailers
LIBRARIES AND SOURCES OF CODE
Pandas library for data management
https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/index.html
Matplotlib library to visualize the data
https://matplotlib.org/2.0.2/examples/axes_grid/demo_parasite_axes2.html
Librería Numpy
https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/index.html#reference
Libreria Time
https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html
Algoritmo Kelvin a RGB
https://tannerhelland.com/2012/09/18/convert-temperature-rgb-algorithm-code.html
json: Pezoa, F., Reutter, J. L., Suarez, F., Ugarte, Mart'in, & Vrgo
c, Domagoj. (2016). Foundations of JSON schema. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 263–273).
sounddevice: Geier, M., & others. (2020). Sounddevice. GitHub. Retrieved from https://python-sounddevice.readthedocs.io/en/0.3.15/index.html
sunpy: This research used version 4.0.5 of the SunPy open source software package.
numpy: Harris, C.R., Millman, K.J., van der Walt, S.J. et al. Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585, 357–362 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2.
INFORMATION SOURCES
Data on Proton Density, Velocity and Temperature of Ions in the Solar Wind
https://sohoftp.nascom.nasa.gov/sdb/goes/ace/monthly/
Experiment to understand the effects of the solar wind
https://www.scienceinschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/issue29_solar_wind.pdf
Simulation of the interaction of the solar wind with the earth's magnetic field
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13506
Information on the solar wind with greater level of detail
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19700031585/downloads/19700031585.pdf
solar wind
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st5/SCIENCE/solarwind.html
Tags
#spaceweather, #solarwind, #solarparkerprobe, #sun, #science