High-Level Project Summary
We tried to develop a website to increase the general public's awareness on the field of space exploration, specifically on the case of the Solar exploration. Our proposed solution would contain interactive 3-D models of the various probes that studied about the sun and also try to make the data collected by these satellites into an easy to understand form.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The main attraction of this project is the easily understandable representation of data, the story-like approach and the gamified UI. It basically simplifies the data provided in a visually stimulating manner.
Solar flares of the magnitude similar to that of the Carrington event or bigger could wipe out entire power grids, and the destruction would be extremely hard to recover from. We could reduce that damage by shutting down the electrical grids to not overwhelm them and prevent them from destroying themselves. We could also send notifications to the public at the onset of a Solar Storm giving them ample time to power off their electronic gadgets and prevent them from permanent damage.
We hope to increase the public's interest in this mission thereby making the authorities to develop newer and better tools to expand our understanding about the Universe. We plan to include a chat feature where the people can discuss their own theories on various mysteries in space. These can be peer reviewed by a panel of scientists. This can also serve as a platform for the public to propose ideas for future missions. And who knows we might discover the next Carl Sagan
We used Figma to create our prototype. We also tried to include 3-D models using Blender and tried to develop a working website using HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Space Agency Data
- We have tried to incorporate the 3-D model of the Parker Solar Probe and its various instruments into our app to make it more interactive and interesting, link
- We have also used data about the Parker Solar Probe mission available on the Wikipedia to get an overview of the project, link.
- We have also used data about the instruments onboard the probe and how they work and about the data that they collect, link
Hackathon Journey
The Space Apps experience was very unique and educative at the same time. Vast amounts of research on the Parker Solar Probe helped us improve knowledge about the possibilities of studying about the Sun and its atmosphere. The fact that the probe became the first artificial object to orbit the Sun gave our team the inspiration to create awareness about the probe by implementing an efficient and easily understandable UI. Our team would like to thank our local lead Mr. Aravind Sekhar and all the volunteers for extending their support to all teams in the best possible way.
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Tags
#software, #ParkerSolarProbe, #FIgma