Epic Solutions

Parker Solar Prober in a epic journey

High-Level Project Summary

We developed a book that follows the hero's journey model created by Joseph John Campbell and which has been a very attractive model of adventure for young people, as in Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, among others. It fulfills the objective of telling the journey of the Parker Solar Probe and, combined with interactive resources (such as QR codes that evade videos and images) and images present in the book, attract the attention of young people. In this way, the book has the function of transmitting scientific knowledge to young people for educational purposes, thus having a social function that can be found in SDG 4.

Link to Final Project

https://senacspedu-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/antonio_cgpaula_senacsp_edu_br/ETA0Df69Aa9CqNkAX5SYw84BVqV84Rysvh8mWRkjZNH3tg?e=ufWD2Y

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kaQCPYAfF_9J0szUMkKvOnXtpb6xmSPR/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

How does the project work?

From the interactive book we will explain about this much desired mission. We will start by talking about his idealization, the desire to get as close as possible to the Sun, with our main character being Parker Solar Probe. In the development of the mission there were some challenges that we will bring along the chapters, as starting with this idea of launching an object towards the Sun in 1958, there were some problems not being able to continue the project, but that was not why it prevented the Probe to take off. Throughout the pages we will bring relevant information about the mission as a whole, such as the problems faced, its achievements, solving and bringing answers to questions that previously would not be able to answer, relationship with the Planet Venus and its gravity, among other adventures.

To make the young audience interested in the copy, we will relate the book to technology throughout the manuscript, placing QR-Codes with direction for videos, images or sounds captured by Sonda and even the launch on August 12, 2018.

Project benefits

The book allows the reader to learn about Parker Solar Probe and the Solar System in a more fun way, through an exciting story that will show the challenges overcome until reaching the Probe's objective, also showing projections of its future missions.

With this, the information will be organized in the story, making the reader more interested in Satellites and the wonderful solar system. In addition, readers will be able to inform themselves with a much superior wealth of details on the subject. In this way, our project would be contributing to SDG 4, which has an educational nature.

Project Objectives

Through this book we aim to captivate as many young people as possible. For this, we use the aforementioned strategy of technological integration, in addition to the hero's journey method that has been attractive to young people.

We bring a lot of relevant and significant information to science. Demonstrating in the book: the achievements, the challenges, the resilience and the focus on the study to find the best solution and make sure that the Sonda did not encounter problems. The purpose of these measures is precisely to impress the reader.

In addition, another of our goals is to delight our audience with science as other best-selling books have done, as an example we have: Cosmos, the theory of everything and many other books aimed at young people and related to the scientific topic.

In addition, our project relies on scientific propagation and seeks to engage young people in the world of science through a captivating and interactive book, an innovative proposal for this style of books.

Project Differential

After some research, we found that there is no book on the market that tells the history of the Probe with a wealth of details and much less for the young public. For this reason, the launch of this didactic and interactive book would be a differential in the industry.

Moreover, few books are dedicated to making the content more didactic and integrating technology to make it more attractive to young people.

Tools used by the project

Microsoft Word software was used to edit the book. In addition, it was used to create the chapters and some of its pages cited in the book. In addition, Figma software was used to create the design of the book cover and its side.

In addition, to create the 3D model of the book, the website “resetei.com” was used, which modeled the virtual style of the book.

Space Agency Data

We used these links provided in the "resources" tab,to learn about it, take ownership of it, and get this idea from the interactive book. The following data from NASA was used:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/traveling-to-the-sun-why-won-t-parker-solar-probe-melt

https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/2021/11/10/space-dust-presents-opportunities-challenges-as-parker-solar-probe-speeds-back-toward-the-sun/

https://www-nasa-gov.translate.goog/feature/goddard/2021/five-weird-things-that-happen-in-outer-space/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=pt&_x_tr_hl=pt

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasas-parker-solar-probe-sheds-new-light-on-the-sun

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/five-questions-about-space-weather-and-its-effects-on-earth-answered

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2021/12/10/solar-tour-pit-stop-8-venus/

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2021/12/14/solar-tour-pit-stop-12-at-the-sun/

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2021/12/11/solar-tour-pit-stop-9-the-solar-wind/

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2352/sun-3d-model/

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/parker-solar-probe/in-depth/

Hackathon Journey

Our experience on the space apps challenge was surprising and great, having the need to always look into new ideas and researches, always developing our capacity and creativity.

To develop our solution, we had to make countless researches about the probe and by doing that, we learned a lot about these themes, such as the own probe, the sun and venus.

Our team decided to chose this challenge because is a very interesting topic and a mark on the human science, but there is just a few of divulgation and is hard for the young public to get this knowledge

To solve it, our main approach was to think how we would lie to see this theme, since we are part of the young people of the world

Althought that, we had a lot of trouble and challenging, which was needed that we rethink our problem to find solutions that could truly solve the problem we had in our front

To finish, we would like to thank all the mentors and teachers that helped us during the challenge, giving ideas and finding some faults in our project.

References

https://astronomy.com/news/2018/08/60-year-race-to-the-sun

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/webprogram/Paper61485.html

https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/20792/98-1875.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20020210015816/http://www.space.com/news/nasa_budget_020204.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/science/eugene-parker-solar-wind-nasa-probe.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301998540_SOLAR_PROBE_PLUS_MISSION_DESIGN_OVERVIEW_AND_MISSION_PROFILE