Solis

Extrema | Creative Data Display with the Parker Solar Probe

Awards & Nominations

Solis has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Solis Game

High-Level Project Summary

The solution comes through a game, the Solis Game, whose main challenge is to hit a riddle in relation to this data, which are updated every 3 hours, and hitting the riddle, a piece of a song is suggested. The ultimate goal is to guess what the song is! If you make a mistake, you should wait at least 3 hours to receive new data and restart the game. This ACE data is collected automatically through a bot, made in the TypeScript language and fully structured with libraries having the potential to acquire more advanced features in other editions of the game.

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Jy9kX2GqNSVPGhuWH79J4eR_m0dr72xn?usp=sharing

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frRmWtiOAxo

Detailed Project Description

Solis Game and facilitated learning of solar probe data

The Solis team, "The energy we need". Our mission is to transform scientific and academic language into a language more accessible and attractive to all. The challenge we've challenged at NASA International Space Apss Challenge 2022 is to creatively transform data from solar probes.

The Parker Solar Probe, for example, was the last solar probe sent into space and is the closest to the Sun. Another probe surrounding the star king is ace, sent in 1997 and which, to this day, transmits data on solar winds and geomagnetic storms. And it is with this data that the Solis works.

The ultimate goal is to guess what the song is! If you make a mistake, you should wait at least 3 hours to receive new data and restart the game. It is important to emphasize that the responses are explained in a simple and relaxed way, both for those who got it right and for those who missed the riddle.

This ACE data is collected automatically through a bot, made in the TypeScript language and fully structured with libraries having the potential to acquire more advanced features in other editions of the game.

With Solis Game, lay people on the subject of the effects of the sun on Planet Earth, such as changes in GPS, air traffic and the distribution of electricity, will be able to learn and consume data that currently seem more like ieroglyphs. The Solis Game comes to be the Rosetta Stone of the ACE solar probe. In addition, the user can have fun trying to decipher a music and compete in a world rankig. With this new information, the player can change their local reality (such as planning when to take a trip) and, in a network focused on the same object, change global paradigms (like discovering that the Sun is much more picking up a bronze).

Important Facts

According to the challenge, you wouldn't need to use parker solar probe data. Thus, ace data, available at sapce weather prediction center, were used.

What is ACE?

NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) collects and analyzes particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar and galactic origins. The data contributes to our understanding of the Sun, its interaction with Earth, and the evolution of the solar system.

ACE continues to provide space weather reports and warnings of geomagnetic storms that can disrupt communications on Earth and harm astronauts in space.
The spacecraft has operated far beyond its expected lifetime.

What benefits does it have?

Solis Game demonstrates scientific data in an intelligible and relaxed way, that is, laypeople in the subject can benefit from a game that, in addition, involves the art of music. In this way, people will be able to change the micro and macro environment, with knowledge, previously unattainable, now in the palm of their hand.

What do you hope to achieve?

We hope that this game will have a local and global impact and that people will find entertainment and benefit from this creatively translated data. We also hope to evolve the game by releasing specific versions for school reinforcement or academic reinforcement, since with this data, it is possible to work from basic mathematics to advanced algebra.

Space Agency Data

We use data from the

The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)

Data from one of the oldest space weather stations; ACE still provides data that we receive within minutes of when it is collected in space.

We collect data of positioning, speed, density and temperature of the sun's rays, every 3 hours and put in our game through a bot, that is, we automate this action. With this data, we ask questions that have to do with them and the impacts of solar winds and geomagnetic storms on planet Earth. The language for boting was Typescript and some libraries were added for new features in the future. In this way, we can add new data or treat it differently and thus perform other riddles and questions.

ACE inspired us, because despite being older than Parker, she's been there, steady and strong, transmitting data to us for over 20 years. It is up to us to turn them into relevant information, and more, so that everyone understands. We also thought of adding data from the 'Parker Solar Probe' in the future. Thus, we unite and old and new in the search for knowledge.

Hackathon Journey

Our experience was sensational. In addition to the feeling of team, with discussions and hugs, we develop our analytical and projective vision.

What inspired us to choose this challenge was, first, our passion to creatively transform scientific and academic language into an attractive and accessible language for all. In addition, our worship of the king star that provides us with all the energy we need.

We approached the challenge in a way that we could extract the data from solar probes in a simple way. Thus, the creation of the bot was our main idea. Easily this was put into practice and the combination with the game made everything more attractive. The choice to put music into the game's theme was to attract more people in a fun way and stimulate healthy competition.

The setbacks and challenges arose throughout the process. We believe that time is our best ally and our worst friend. Knowing how to plan our available time and distribute tasks was essential for project delivery.

Finally, we would like to thank everyone involved in the global challenge and, especially, on the spot. Mentoring was essential for a good project development and the local organization provided us with incredible tools and knowledge to deliver our best.