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Benha | On the Way to the Sun

Parker's journey throughout space to the destination -sun

High-Level Project Summary

we gathered information from NASA's websites, videos and pictures.we decided to use these information to create a documentary explaining the information in an easy and briefed way to be easy to be understood by everyone.We also made a presentation in a catchy way to illustrate the journey of Parker to the sun and to attract the audience and keeping them focused

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RL2uwm3-Hu7Q-XcJfu6D4zPQbLUgqXf_/view?usp=drivesdk

Link to Project "Demo"

https://1drv.ms/p/s!An24xVOaJi_mgRAaqZ0m55z9sXcN?e=nXI9ng

Detailed Project Description

  1. Our project illustrate how parker reached the sun,the struggles it faced and its new discoveries in a briefly easy way.
  2. It is a documentary video including Videos and pictures that help with making the project entertaining and easy to understand.
  3. Our all hope is that people would find our project helpful and respondent to their questions.we also hope that we find out more and more about the sun and having a continuous developing technologies that help us reach beyond the horizons.


Software applications we used:

  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Logo: Adobe illustrator
  • Subtitles:VN

Space Agency Data

We used NASA's resources :


Photos and videos:


ps://images.app.goo.gl/ZZwmnNMWMiLjYt5g8(NASA)


https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/switchbacks-sun-web.gif (NASA)


https://images.app.goo.gl/ZBDvfWFxKC6pQg2y8 (NASA)


These data helped us with gathering information about the topic and making the script if the documentary:


NASA entered the solar atmosphere for the first time

 Isn't that fantastic?

NASA's Parker solar probe was launched in 2018 to discover our very only star-the sun. This is the culmination of 60 years of hard work. On December 14, 2021 Parker has flown through the sun's upper atmosphere the- Corona and it became the first human made thing that goes that close from the sun.


As landing on the moon helped scientists to know information about it, touching the very stuff of the sun will help them to uncover extremely important information about our closest star, its impact on the surroundings, studying the rest of the stars of the universe and how to have a better protection from threats of space weather.


On the way to the sun Parker filed by Venus to slingshot it and make it closer to our star.Parker discovered that Venus's atmosphere goes through astonishing changes through the sun's 11 year activity cycles.

Of course Parker faced so much struggles  

 so what are solarwinds?SolarWinds are a flow of ionized gases, energetic particles and magnetic fields from the Sun that spread rapidly filling space and affect weather in the solar system which can harm both astronauts and satellites.the solarwind moves at speed of 1.4million km/h

When Parker solar probe was designed and it doesn't have a dust detector but it was attacked by a huge number of duct grains moving at high speeds forming clouds of plasma. These clouds produced electric charges that the probe could detect it by its sensors, and scientists  understood from the data Parker sent that there was a huge number of dust grains 


 At the closest approach to the Sun and to perform these extraordinary investigations, we will surely ask how Parker didn't melt. The answer is because of its thick shield which is designed to withstand temperatures of million degrees, brutal heat and radiations. The shield is made up of carbon carbon technologies using carbon composite foam sandwiched between two carbon plates, with a finishing touch of white ceramic paint to reflect as much heat as possible, It is extremely important to keep the shield facing the sun so there are things called solar limps sensors that help it to right itself autonomously if it was in the wrong position. Parker solar probe is also sheltered from the Heat to avoid its solar panels from getting overheated so they retract behind the shadow of the heat shield, leaving small parts exposed to the sun rays. The solar arrays have a simple cooling system It is made of aluminium fins and pumps to circulate the coolant and prevent it from freezing during launching and to keep the spacecraft and the arrays cool despite of the heat of the sun. About a gallon of deionized water with other chemicals are used in it.The range of temperature that the spacecraft will be exposed to varied between 10c and 125c.Very few liquids can handle those ranges like water and to keep it from boiling at the high temperatures it will be pressurized to the boiling point that is  over 125 Celsius.


Parker uniquely opened our eyes to new discoveries: we were all surprised that after this much dust Parker faced, it discovered that around the sun there is a dust-free zoned area .Parker also discovered that magnetic zigzag structures called switchbacks which can be defined by rapid flips go like clusters timed with fast moving clumps in the solar wind.  


Our first passage through the corona and the upcoming flybys would provide us with more data .And here's a surprise for you, you can actually observe the spacecrafts flying through the coronal structures during total solar eclipse where the Moon completely blocks the view of the Sun from Earth.

Hackathon Journey

NASA's space apps challenge according to us was so useful as it helps us to to know different people and work with them as one team. The challenge teaching us how to respect different views and 8 Albert us to know how brainstorming occurs between members. We have chosen on the way to the sun challenge because touching the sun would vary a liveable idea so we wanted to know how had NASA done this. Another lended us with the needed resources and information. Sometimes we had ups and downs but we were able to skip this problems. Hackathon and truly it will not be the last one. At last we managed to achieve nurses goal which is no new information about our solar system and our universe. We are eagerly waiting for nasa's next space app challenge

References

We used NASA's resources :

-Dec 14, 2021

By Mara Johnson-Groh

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md

Last update:Dec 21, 2021

Editor: Miles Hatfield


-January 1, 2022


-2016

-Jul 26, 2018

By Susannah Darling

NASA Headquarters, Washington

Last Updated: Jul 26, 2018

Editor: Rob Garner

-November 10, 2021

Miles Hatfield


-Dec 4,2019

By Sarah Frazier

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Last Updated: Dec 17, 2020

Editor: Rob Garner


-December 14, 2021

Miles Hatfield


-December 11, 2021

Miles Hatfield


Page Updated: March 1, 2022



Photos and videos:


ps://images.app.goo.gl/ZZwmnNMWMiLjYt5g8(NASA)


https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/switchbacks-sun-web.gif (NASA)


https://images.app.goo.gl/ZBDvfWFxKC6pQg2y8 (NASA)

Tags

#sun, #parker, #space,

On the Way to the Sun

On April 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe did what no other human-made object has ever done: it “touched” the Sun—meaning the spacecraft flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere (the corona) and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. Your challenge is to develop a creative way to tell young audiences the inspiring story of Parker’s record-breaking journey from Earth to the Sun and all the perils it overcame on the way.