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Universal Event | Creative Data Display with the Parker Solar Probe

Creative Data Display with the Parker Solar Probe: Solzinho

High-Level Project Summary

The Parker Solar Probe, the closest satellite to the Sun, is gathering data about the Sun, which is not commonly known by the general public. That's why we created "Solzinho" (Diminutive of Sun in Portuguese), an app and website that helps the general user understand more about the Sun in a very accessible and straightforward way. We gathered the data gathered by the Parker Solar Probe like the wind speed, KP index, and Temperature, and filtered it so that we can pursue a more educative way of spreading these informations. The group developed with React Native with Typescript on the app and React Native and the website frontend with React.

Link to Final Project

https://www.figma.com/proto/WclDWUz9WiJq58tWdsRdT2/Space-Capy?node-id=1%3A1950&scaling=scale-down&page-id=1%3A1950&starting-point-node-id=1%3A1951&show-proto-sidebar=1

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/cBJ01Y53CNI

Detailed Project Description


What exactly does it do?

Our project has by one of its premises a user-friendly experience to explain the Parker Solar Probe and the data that the satellite collected and tries to explain it in the easiest way possible, so it can be accessible to more people and explain even to the non-scientific community the data provided to us by NASA. Our objective was to provide the filtered data to the most people possible about the solar winds, solar heat, and how that affects the planet and the auroras that a lot of people had the pleasure to see.


How does it work?

Once the user opens the app or the website, they will see our beautiful landing page with the instructions and a little bit of information about the satellite already. Now, after they already know a little bit about the Parker Solar Probe, they will see that our team that made the project and, of course, the NASA and universal space apps challenge logo. Now, they will be presented with a hub, where they can choose to go on the Parker Solar Probe page, Solar System page, Northern Lights page, and Challenge page. Every page has a little bit of information, in the simplest way possible, so uninformed people can understand a little better about the Probe, the Sun and the data that we collected, the Northern lights, and the challenge. We tried to go with a more accessible, innovative, didactic, and creative design on the pages, with a beautiful palette chosen by our amazing designers, that was inspired by the Northern Lights.


What benefit does it have?

In both our app and website, the user can get informed about the Parker Solar Probe and the data that it collected. We also tried to predict if, in the next three days, we could see an aurora. Our project focuses on giving information to the people that can’t have it. The more, the better!


What do we hope to achieve?

We hope to bring out this helpful information and statistical reports from the satellite to the general public in an accessible manner, especially to the general user. We also want to develop a user-friendly mobile application and website associated with the data that NASA provides to the general public, like the speed of the wind in the Sun's corolla, the temperature of the Sun's surface, and the KP index, all of that with a little bit of explanation.


But, for the most part, we want to encourage the earth’s citizens of all ages to learn about other things and to see different perspectives about the biggest star in our solar system by using our project.

Space Agency Data

Hackathon Journey

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

The fact that we can study an object as huge as the Sun shows us how humanity has passed our expectations, and we are really grateful that we can apply our area of study on this.


Our approach:

  1. Kauã spent his time researching through the challenges and chose one that was at the same time challenging and interesting.
  2. After he chose the challenge, he started to look for team members and came up with the first team: Kauã, João, Yasmin, Ábia, and Felipe.
  3. We had a general meeting, compiling and brainstorming our ideas.
  4. We split into 3 sub-teams: The first one being the coding team, where Kauã and Felipe started looking through the APIs. The second is the design team, composed of Ábia and Yasmin, that quickly began to design the app on Figma. And the third being composed by João, who started to search through all the links provided by NASA on the challenge page, filtering the data.
  5. The coding team saw that the coding part of the project wouldn’t be done by the deadline with only two people, and that’s when we found Igor, who agreed to help us with the front-end development part of the website.

References

Tools used:


Coding languages/Framework:

  • ReactJS (JavaScript).
  • React Native (Typescript).


Source Code:

Tags

#App, #website, #nasa, #data, #collaboration, #problemsolving, #teamwork, #brazil, #solar, #parkersolarprobe, #satellite

Creative Data Display with the Parker Solar Probe

Several spacecraft, including the Parker Solar Probe, are gathering data about the Sun that will enable us to learn more about solar effects (a.k.a. space weather) in space and on Earth. Your challenge is to create an interactive tool to represent this data in a new and inviting way that improves public knowledge and understanding of space weather.