Encyclopedia of parker

High-Level Project Summary

We use the information that NASA has on the probe , collect it in a website and make a lot of section which will make the data which is about the probe more easy for the user.We make a website consist of 6 sections First section: intro of our website which will provide the user by the main information about the probe , how to use the website by correct way Second section(Topics): contain all topics related to the park probe in details by an easy wayThird section (Gallery): photos of parker in space Fourth section (Chats and services):This section including two parts Chats and maps Fifth section ( Resources) Sixth section ( Contact)

Detailed Project Description

We use the information that NASA has on the probe, that we make a tool to simplify it so that it can be fun for a normal person, not knowing about the probe, to get in there and understand the probe well and get in there.

We make a website consist of 6 sections

Solution

First section(Home)

It has a video to show how to use the website and an intro about Parker solar probe represent in an easy way which make the user have enough knowledge about it . in addition to this, we create a counter that count the time since launch of the probe in 2018


Second section(Topics):

in this section we covered all topics related to the paker solar probe that person need to know it to be like have a total.


Third section (Gallery):

We add some 3D images, which will help the user to make a connection between the information in the other sections and those images to imagine the shape of the probe in space in details


Fourth section (Chats and services):

This section including two parts

1 - Chats :

We can say it is like a community which allow the user to ask a questions , to make a chat with other users ,and to discuss this question in order to find a solution which will make the users have passion from being in a community all people in it is interestef in the same thing


2-Maps:

If the user want to go in a place to ask for information about the probe, the map will provide information about the nearest astronomical research place to go and ask in it


Fifth section (Resources):

We have resources that will help the user to build a complete knowledge about the probe and help them to start their own research of they interested enough


Sixth section:(Contact)

We will allow the user to write his own feedback about the website and how to develop it if he had any idea and every once in a while, we will read it and update the website with the needs of that have been written by user



This is how we will simplify the information for the user and provide him with drawings so that he can imagine and also places where he can ask and chats because if he has ask him we can answer them and also resources because if love goes deeper


Space Agency Data

In the second section we use some informations in our topics from different website and we collect this data and analyse it in an easy way to make it easy for the user to get the best knowledge and information about the probe


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The Heliophysics Division of the Scientific Missions Directorate studies the nature of the Sun, and how it affects the very nature of space—and thus, the atmospheres of planets and the technology that resides there. Space is not completely empty, as is often thought; Instead, we live in the extended atmosphere of an active star. Our sun sends out a constant flow of particles and energy - the solar wind - as well as a constantly wriggling magnetic system. This vast, dynamic heliosphere surrounds the sun, Earth, and planets and extends far into the solar system.


Studying this system not only helps us understand basic information about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because - when the weather is extreme - it can interfere with our communications, satellites, and power grids. Studying the Sun and space can teach us more about how stars contribute to the hab

Drawing this interconnected system requires a thorough study of the Sun's influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft strategically positioned throughout our heliosphere — from the Parker Solar Probe at the sun that watches the start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the farthest man-made object, Voyager, which sends back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical and well-thought

The Parker Solar Probe has taken a large number of gravitational interactions with energy-losing planets, especially frequent interactions with Venus, to enable it to get closer to the Sun. In 2019, it crossed for the first time within 23.7 million kilometers (14.7 million miles), and flew deeper into the solar wind than ever before. In April 2021, it crossed the threshold of 13.1 million km (8.13 million miles), as a new set of solar phenomena, long expected to exist, were observed for the first time. Its closest approach to the Sun, as of December 2021, was only 7.87 million kilometers (4.89 million miles) from the star. Its closest final approach, after its ongoing gravitational interactions with Venus, would put it within 6.16 million kilometers (3.83 million miles): the closest we've ever gotten.

Parker Solar Probe

The Parker Solar Probe's heat shield, shown as the upper structure here with a white alumina coating on the outside, is absolutely essential to protect the vital instruments inside from the catastrophic heat from the sun. If the heat shield fails, the entire probe will fail within seconds. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman

Why didn't the heat of the sun destroy it?

A special and unique heat shield is required to protect the Parker Solar Probe. Here at the current orbital distance from the Sun, solar radiation gives us 1.5 kilowatts of energy per square meter: that's how much it is multiplied by the top of Earth's atmosphere. Nearest, the Parker Solar Probe will be exposed to radiation of 650 kilowatts per square metre, or more than 400 times the intensity we experience at our current location. To survive, the following interventions were made in the design of the spacecraft.


It has a solar shield facing the sun: 2.3 meters in diameter and 11.4 cm thick, made of carbon-carbon composite, and designed to withstand temperatures of 1370°C (2500°F).

The shield is covered with a reflective alumina layer - as white as possible - to absorb as little solar radiation as possible.

The spacecraft and its instruments were placed in the center of the shield's shadow, completely blocking solar radiation.

There are many independent sensors and reaction wheels to ensure that this is always the case, even without a human operator.

It is powered by a dual array of solar panels: a primary one that collects energy when the spacecraft is far from the sun, and a smaller secondary one using pumped (active) coolant.

Even with all of this, we fully expect the heat will eventually render the probe inoperable, but hopefully not before it makes at least one, and maybe three final ways very close.


The sun released a medium-level solar flare on January 20, 2022, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EDT. Captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which constantly monitors the sun

Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Solar flares and flares can affect radio communications, electrical power grids, navigation signals and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.

The Parker Solar Probe touching the sun is "a defining moment for solar science and a truly remarkable achievement," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Not only does this achievement provide us with deeper insights into the evolution of our sun and its effects on our solar system, but everything we learn about our star also teaches us more about stars in the rest of the universe."

As it orbits close to the solar surface, Parker is making new discoveries that other spacecraft have been too far to see, including from within the solar wind - the stream of particles from the sun that can affect us on Earth. In 2019, Parker discovered that zigzag magnetic structures in the solar wind, called zigzags, are abundant near the sun. But how and where they form remains a mystery. Having cut the distance in half from the Sun since then, Parker Solar Probe has passed close enough to pinpoint one place from where it originated: the solar surface.

The first pass through the corona - and the promise of more flights to come - will continue to provide data on phenomena that are impossible to study from afar.


said Noor Al Rawafi, Parker Project Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Laboratory of Applied Physics in Laurel, Maryland. “We see evidence of corona in magnetic field data, solar wind data and visually in images. We can actually see the spacecraft flying through coronal structures that can be observed during a total solar eclipse.”

The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to explore the mysteries of the Sun by traveling closer to it than any spacecraft before. Three years after the launch and decades after the first pregnancy, Parker is finally here.


Unlike the Earth, the Sun does not have a solid surface. But it has an extremely hot atmosphere, made of solar material bound to the Sun by gravity and magnetic forces. When rising heat and pressure push this material away from the sun, it reaches a point where gravity and magnetic fields are too weak to contain them.

This point, known as the Alfvén critical surface, marks the end of the solar atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind. The solar material that contains the energy needed to cross that boundary becomes the solar wind, which pulls with it the sun's magnetic field as it races through the solar system to Earth and beyond. Importantly, beyond the critical Alfvén surface, the solar wind moves so fast that the waves within the wind cannot travel fast enough to return to the sun - severing the connection between them.

Until now, researchers were unsure of exactly where the critical Alfvén surface is. Based on distant images of the corona, estimates have it that it is somewhere between 10 to 20 solar radii from the surface of the Sun - 4.3 to 8.6 million miles. Parker's spiral path is slowly bringing it closer to the sun and over the past few passes, the spacecraft has been consistently less than 20 solar radii (91 percent of Earth's distance from the sun), putting it in a position to cross the boundary—if the estimates are correct.

On April 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the Sun, the Parker Solar Probe encountered specific magnetic and particle conditions at 18.8 solar rad

Hackathon Journey

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References

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/parker-solar-probe/in-depth/


http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/The-Mission/index.php#:~:text=Parker%20Solar%20Probe%20has%20three,accelerate%20and%20transport%20energetic%20particles


https://sandims.sansa.org.za/


https://sppgway.jhuapl.edu/


https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ace-real-time-solar-wind

https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/tools/iSWA/

https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/


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