High-Level Project Summary
Our project explores the Parker Solar Probe, a space probe that was launched in 2018 that uses Venus’ gravity during seven flybys over nearly seven years to gradually bring its orbit closer to the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere, The corona, which has a higher temperature than the Sun itself. The story we wrote pays tribute to Eugene Parker by dedicating chapters of the book to him. It talks about the 60 years of work that the scientists have dedicated to this mission and goes through the journey of exploring how the parker solar probe works in space, and its journey and findings to the current time.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our story, "93 million miles ahead", is about the story of the Parker Solar Probe, and is meant for children in middle school. We used illustrations to display the feelings of the character and make the book more enjoyable to the demographic. We also used easy-to-understand words, but also mixed them with the topics we researched, as kids are smart and want to learn or be seen as smart too.
We divided the book into 2 parts
Part 1 includes information on Eugene Parker, the Solar probe's mission, how the Solar probe will survive in the heat, the difference between heat and temperature, the lift-off, the Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, and Kmag used for transportation
Part 2 includes the journey of the spacecraft, its encounter with dust, and the observations it made about the sun and solar wind, like the "campfires" on the sun till current events. It will also talk about what is happening on Earth during this time.
Space Agency Data
NASA (www.nasa.gov)
European Space Agency
We used these space agencies as they had a lot of information for our project in different areas, constructed the entire timeline of the Probe for us, and made it easier as there were also pictures to demonstrate the ideas of Eugene Parker, and also the orbit of the Probe.
The videos of Nasa also gave more information about the journey but also the Liftoff, like the use of the Kmag and Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket
Hackathon Journey
It was a fantastic experience completing the SpaceApps challenge this year. Although we started the project with minimum knowledge or experience in what to do, we both felt passion for our research on the Solar Probe, and tried our best to accomplish our goal of building the project! Working in a team and producing such artwork in a short length of time gave us more confidence in our competency. We would like to thank Tanisha for coming up with ideas, and managing the creativity side of the challenge, while Rydia managed the project submission, timing, and writing. We are both so thankful to work with each other, which added more fun to the journey!
References
www.scienceabc.com
sci.esa.int
solarsystem.nasa.gov
parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu
phys.org
and videos from JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
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Tags
#story #sun #solarprobe