High-Level Project Summary
We developed a website that offers simplified information on the satellite's earth-observing missions from the past to the future. It helps solve the challenge of creating an engaging multimedia depiction of all NASA’s Earth-observing missions that also demonstrates how the mission set evolved to include new technologies and meet science-driven needs. It is important to create this engaging website as we would like to help the public which is the broader audience to understand and be continually interested in each role of satellites and how it helps our daily life be it from the past, the future, or the present.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
This website offers simplified information on the satellite's launch date, status, main objective, and scientific observations on the mission from the past to future missions. It is hoped that this website can help the public to understand each role of satellites and how it helps our daily life.
Simply, browsing through the website to know about the earth-observing mission interested like on any other website, and clicking on the name title of the satellite will bring the public to another website where more information can be found if they wish to gather more knowledge about that specific satellite.
This simplified website is expected to benefit the public by enriching their knowledge of significant earth-observing missions from the past, the present, and the future.
We utilized Google sites in creating a website that was according to our acquired needs to develop the project. We also utilized Canva in creating the slides for the demo pitch.
Space Agency Data
In this project, we decided to utilize the data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
We decided to have an understanding of the Earth-Observing Mission executed by various space agencies since the 20th century such as the function of this mission on current life. From here, we were able to make a summary of what the Earth-Observing Mission is and include it on our website. We managed to retrieve the information on the launch date, status, and the main and science objectives of each mission that NASA has launched and the Inter-Agency Mission. We decided to rearrange the launch date from the earliest and the latest to show the continuity of the Earth-Observing Mission over the decades. We also filtered and compared the main and science objectives of a continued mission such as the Nimbus. We aspired to make simplified information on each mission’s objectives as we want the public to understand the missions better.
Hackathon Journey
The Space Apps experience was a very fruitful journey. Many workshops were held to prepare us for tackling the challenge chosen for the project. We learned more about the James Webb Telescope through online workshops and the Parker Solar Probe through the physical workshop. We were inspired to choose Nimbus to Now: The History of NASA’s Earth-Observing Missions as we were interested in expanding our knowledge regarding these amazing satellites. We realized that these satellites were significant to discover Earth as a whole. We devised an idea to simplify the information given on NASA's website by creating a new website that contains key information regarding the Earth-observing satellites that the public could learn more about if they are curious or interested. We do hope that our website can spark the public's interest. The setback was there was too much information to be simplified for the public. However, we pushed through and burned the midnight oil into providing good information on our website. Finally, we would like to thank our local lead, Teacher Teo for guiding us through the Space Apps Challenge and for his never-tiring effort in answering our whole lot of questions.
References
- All Missions- NASA's Earth Observing System at https://eospso.nasa.gov/content/all-missions
- NASA Science Missions - Science Mission Directorate at https://science.nasa.gov/missions-page?field_division_tid=103&field_phase_tid=All
- Earth Observing Dashboard at https://eodashboard.org/
- Earth Observation Satellites - Canadian Space Agency at https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/earth-observation/
Tags
#NIMBUStoNOW #Earth #Satellite #EOS