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Corum | Nimbus to Now: The History of NASA’s Earth-Observing Missions

Teaching the World About the World

High-Level Project Summary

In our project, we created a guideline to renovate the EOS's all missions website "https://eospso.nasa.gov/content/all-missions" to meet the current website standards. It had a lot of design flaws or deficiencies that could be improved. We read and cited articles about the ways we planned to improve the site. After the searching phase, we created a detailed map that the creators can use as inspiration to enhance their website. The website would be a location where anyone from any background could have fun while learning about earth observation projects after all the enhancements. Therefore assisting NASA in reaching out to learners through their educational websites.

Link to Final Project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vLSO2SAk-p2uD9xuqNjfqX3AWM02GpgY/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7RvdDImniE

Detailed Project Description

Even though our project is based on the website https://eospso.nasa.gov/content/all-missions?page=1&order=title&sort=des, anyone can benefit from it. Because our project is about engaging the audience through a more simple, interactive, and dynamic design. We point out the mistakes based on the articles that we read and cited articles that backed our point. It works by creating a space that is more simple and more modern to not overwhelm the user and make them feel more engaged throughout their time on the website. It benefits the users of the website https://eospso.nasa.gov/content/all-missions?page=1&order=title&sort=des to be able to find the things they wanted easier on the site. It benefits to spread the information faster and easier. We hope to achieve to engage readers from all over the world and of all ages to read the website and get informed about all the Earth Observation projects that Nasa has done, doing, and plans to do. We used our computers for research, and Nasa's open source information at GitHub to get inspiration and to see how Nasa changed its design choices over the years.

Space Agency Data

Our project as a hole is created to benefit the information provided by the space agency's data. We used interactive activities we found on NASA's websites that would help learners to engage with the things they are learning efficiently. Our project idea came while we were researching for sources to make a website from. Then we saw EOS' website for all the missions they did. We were fascinated by the content in it. But the presentation was not the best. So we decided to step in. We also analyzed UI components listed at "https://nasa.github.io/nasawds-site/components/" which seemed to be scientifically efficient. We also used eyes on earth "https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/earth/#/ " in our project as well as space apps challenge's current and 2012 websites to compare

Hackathon Journey

At first, we decided to do our Project about making a new NASA website that would be interesting or entertaining but as we search for information, we came across NASA’s outdated and poorly designed websites which made us bored and lose our enthusiasm for searching for more. Because they were filled with small typography, unusable links, Low-resolution photos, and generally no interaction with the site. So instead of doing a new website that contains NASA’s information we focused on making the current one more up-to-date, interactive, and dynamic. And to achieve that we needed to do a literature review about website designing, user satisfaction in websites, color psychology, and typography. After we had done that, we needed to submit our Project and make a demo. So we split up to make the demo and the Project writing. After we made the demo we took some videos and chose which one was the best. After some time we managed to post it on youtube. After we have finished that, we started to put all the info on the Project submission page. We are very grateful for NASA holding such a hackathon for us and TED Çorum for making it easier for us to join and overcome minor problems. It was very educational. We appreciate everybody's work to make this happen.