High-Level Project Summary
We wrote an autobiography on Parkor Solar Probe. The probe has narrated its journey, floating from one layer to another, revealing its difficulties and eases. The Parker probe has revealed the science behind some well known phenomenas such as Aroura, venus flyby and solar wind. Parkor came across several hurdles but the brainy NASA team had it fully-equipped. Sustaining enormously high temperature was a task for PSP. But heat shield had it saved.We took a very minimalist approach coupled with wit, towards the challenge to bag audience of all ages and deliver a comprehensive insight to PSP's function.
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Detailed Project Description
Parker Solar Probe is a spacecraft that uses breakthrough technology and autonomy to endure heat and radiation like no other mission.
Its primary science goals are to trace how energy and heat move through the solar corona and to explore what accelerates the solar wind as well as solar energetic particles.
Parker Solar Probe’s observations help resolve the mysteries hidden in science ; from directly inside the corona it will help scientists understand why the Sun’s atmosphere is some hundreds of times hotter than its surface.
The mission will provide unprecedentedly close observations of the solar wind—the constant outflow of solar material hurled from the Sun at a million miles per hour.
Parker Solar Probe will also study how solar eruptions accelerate particles to such energies that they can pose a hazard for astronauts and technology in space.
Understanding more about fundamental processes near the Sun will provide key information to better understand their effect on the space environment near Earth. Such space weather can change the orbits of satellites, shorten their lifetimes, or interfere with onboard electronics. The more we learn about what causes space weather—and how to predict it—the better we can protect the satellites we depend on.
Understanding more about space weather also helps protect astronauts from dangerous radiation exposure during potential human space flight missions exploring the Moon and Mars.
Also the project includes detailed instrumentation making PSP an extraordinary device to effectively deal with the challenges it has incurred.
Space Agency Data
Almost all of the data mentioned in the project document was accessed through the official site of NASA. Moreover the animations included in the document were sourced through the very site.
Therefore the data discussed has high validity and relevancy to the challenge.
Hackathon Journey
The experience gained at Space Apps is second to none. It is a diverse and a flexible medium that gave us almost all the autonomy of the challenge.
My team members and I are intrigued in Astro-physics and this challenge came as a treat to us.
We opted for a decent and narrative solution to the project, that is a detailed autobiography of Parkor Solar Probe.
Formulating information as dialogues and giving emotions to an un-animate object was fun but at the same made us think on the last of our braincells. But we did sustain against it and pushed our creativity to a better level.
References
References:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/08/19/first-mission-milestones-accomplished-on-nasas-newly-launched-parker-solar-probe/ (IMAGE PSP INSTRUMENT)
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17. What are Lagrange points? – NASA solar system exploration. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/faq/88/what-are-lagrange-points/#:~:text=What%20are%20they%3F,position%20with%20minimal%20fuel%20consumption
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