Awards & Nominations
GAN Space has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Science as Comics
High-Level Project Summary
We made a web comics to educate younger kids about Parkers Solar Probe, It is known fact that humans remember only 20% of what they read and 80% of what they see, so it seems reasonable to turn the data into visuals, this makes it not only easier to understand, it also inspires future generations of engineers and scientists.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Based on a information from "Nasa" we build a simple storyboard and made a comics, Why comics and not videogame?
We agree that both are very entertaining but when it comes to video games, your hardware has to meet system requirements to run the game, that means if kid cant afford expensive peace of hardware, they can not play informative video games and can not get educated The Fun Way, On the other hand we have comics that are visually pleasing and informative that anyone can enjoy with phones, personal computers etc. only requirements are internet and interest.
Space Agency Data
we used the official data from NASA and this website's challenge's background information
Hackathon Journey
this project was fun. we gained a lot of experience and learned a lot about the sun, space and the parker solar probe. we manly chose this topic because this kind of topic interested all three of us. we basically had one conversation about who did what and then just texted one another for tips and questions. we did not have any setbacks other than not knowing what to do at the start witch was resolved quickly. we would like to thank our teacher because without her we would not know about this project
References
Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 to explore the mysteries of the Sun by traveling closer to it than any spacecraft before. Three years after launch and decades after its conception, Parker finally arrived.
Unlike Earth, the Sun doesn’t have a solid surface. But it does have a superheated atmosphere made of solar material bound to the Sun by gravity and magnetic forces. As rising heat and pressure push that material away from the Sun, there is a point in space where gravity and magnetic fields are too weak to contain it.
That point, known as the Alfvén critical surface, marks the end of the solar atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind. Solar material with the energy to make it across that boundary becomes the solar wind, which drags the magnetic field of the Sun with it as it races across the solar system to Earth and beyond.
Until now, researchers were unsure exactly where the Alfvén critical surface lay. Based on remote images of the corona, estimates had put it somewhere between 10 to 20 solar radii (4.3 to 8.6 million miles) from the surface of the Sun. Parker’s spiral trajectory brings it slowly closer to the Sun and during its previous few passes, the spacecraft was consistently below 20 solar radii (91 percent of Earth’s distance from the Sun), putting it in the position to cross the boundary – assuming the estimates were correct.
On April 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe encountered the specific magnetic and particle conditions at 18.8 solar radii (around 8.1 million miles) above the solar surface that told scientists it had crossed the Alfvén critical surface for the first time and finally entered the solar atmosphere to “touch the Sun.”
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#art #sun #comics #parkersolarprobe