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Pagene: On The Way To The Sun

High-Level Project Summary

Pagene: On The Way To The Sun is a story told through a website in an uncomplicated way. The story of Pagene, a character created by the team to dynamically represent Parker Solar Probe, inspires young people by telling the entire journey of Pagene as a spy, her struggles and her victories until finally discovering the secrets of the Sun that will help the specialists understand and predict future problems, a story without a conclusive ending so that people can imagine how the space probe will continue to perform. Pagene is important to young people to know the history of the first human-made object to "touch the Sun" and gather important information about it.

Link to Final Project

https://www.figma.com/proto/slLKgE1pcgbmJZ6tAsgCp8/Black-Space?node-id=192%3A2005&starting-point-node-id=192%3A2005&scaling=scale-down

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/Y_dJoViOwrQ

Detailed Project Description

What exactly does it do? How does it work?

The site has a dynamic reading about it, so when opening the landing page, the user can choose between Portuguese (Brazil) or English and then start reading.

At the beginning of the story we are introduced to the characters. Then the character's mission and motivation behind the mission is explained.

We explain the whole process of building Pagene, using Storytelling methods (The Hero's Journey). We've included all the difficulties (based on researched data) Pagene had in her training process before facing the Sun on this mission.

Afterwards, we talk about Pagene's achievements in this mission. How she managed to find out about the magnetic structures and get past the critical surface of Alfvén.

Characters

Parker Solar Probe asPagene

Sun as Sun

Venus as Venus

Humans and Scientists asThe Specialists

What benefits does it have?

With an online site, people from all over the world can have access. With a lightweight website for storing and consuming data, it can be downloaded offline or in PDF for later viewing. People of all ages, genders and races can experience Parker Solar Probe's incredible landmark through Pagene's history.

What do you hope to achieve?

The team hopes that the site will generate a worldwide impact that encourages the search for knowledge and that organizations can bring more ideas to the young audience to interact with this type of information in a dynamic way.

What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?

To implement the story idea in a visual way, we used the Figma (https://www.figma.com/) platform to illustrate some objects and build the landing page, as well as prototype them as a team in both languages (Portuguese and English). We also use Google Drive to help us find files and text as a team.

“No great discovery has ever been made without a bold guess.” - Isaac Newton

Space Agency Data

We use some resources made available by NASA. Based on this data, we created a storytelling for young audiences. NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the first object in history to touch the Sun launched in 2018 to explore the star's mysteries. Parker Solar flew through the Sun's upper atmosphere: the corona. We learn that the moon landing allowed us to understand how it was formed, touching the very material the Sun is made of will help scientists uncover important information about the closest star to Earth and its influence on the solar system.

Some websites explained how Parker Solar Probe works and what it does. Parker is making new discoveries, even from within the solar wind – the stream of particles from the Sun that can influence us on Earth. In 2019, the spacecraft discovered that magnetic structures in the solar wind, called zigzags, are abundant near the Sun. Parker Solar Probe or Pagene in the future will tell us what causes this huge number of particles, energies and heat in the region.

For example, one of the information provided by NASA was used to make the story informative and correct like the part that says that Pagene was designed to withstand extreme conditions and temperature fluctuations for the mission. The key lies in its custom heat shield and an autonomous system that helps protect the mission from the Sun's intense light emission but allows coronal material to "touch" the spacecraft.

Finally, we used data provided by the article The Solar Probe Cup on the Parker Solar Probe to explain how Pagene's information receiving system works with the specialists.

Hackathon Journey

Our experience on this Space Apps was amazing. We learned a lot about the space probe journey and teamwork. This challenge was chosen by the team because of the freedom of creation, so we fit our professional area into the challenge. We were curious and we also tested the user experience with people we know, which was a success, we hope that other people will also enjoy the Pagene story and be inspired to remain determined to achieve their goal.