High-Level Project Summary
NASA still intimidate many possible fans around the world as astronomy in general. When a young curious mind want to learn more about astronomy, spacecraft or any news evolving this amazing world, they find it intimidating due lack of facility and easy understandment or even the language barrier.So, our team developed a site with a IA chat that can answer many curiosity questions, introduce and induce the young searcher to digg more and more for knowledge about the space and spacecraft like PARKER SOLAR PROBE and how they are making astronomic science make our life better.
Detailed Project Description
We have as intention to stimulate younger curiosity for spacecraft and how does the PARKER SOLAR PROBE - representing our main subject theme - make difference in our life, in Astronomy, Heliophysics, Earth and Space environment, Physics and so many thing that we can still discovery from the Sun.
The last 70 years had countless ephemeras discovery, and Dr Eugene Parker make this start specially with heliphysic.
The Sun is a star that if we think as non-scientist, we can relate it to happiness, beach, vacation, good day, another day lived in Earth (another 24 hours has passed) or we in our childhood questioning what the Sun was made, how far it was and every possible questions made by us as younger age.
These questions, before internet we used to ask to our parents, teacher or any other other person that we think could have the answer. Books had outdated, limited information and theoretical segmented answers.
As non-coders or scientist participants, we've had as perspective this lack of accessibility to language and find answers in NASA website.
Since our younger public have so many information accessibility through messages, social media, and any information in real time, we developed a chatbot with constant increase IA possibility to answer in multiple language about Solar Parker Probe informations in real time aligned to NASA's informations.
This Chatbot can be access through Telegram's platform thinking in ways to achieve this younger public.
The HackaTop intention is to bring information about all spacecrafts, NASA's missions, new discoveries in multiple languages and for peoples who have visual special necessity.
Space Agency Data
Did it touch the sun? No! The Sun is a star, so it has a lot of plasma, switchers, dust and solar wind and it doesn't have a surface to touch. The term is used because it was the closest spacecraft to the Sun compared to any other spacecraft in history.
Why Parker? Tribute to Dr Eugene N. Parker
• Developed mathematical theory that predicts the solar wind, the constant flow of solar material from the Sun while teaching at Chicago University in the 1950s.
• Expert and reference in heliophysics.
• He was the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name (12/08/2018).
What is heliophysics? Heliophysics is the study of the system composed of the solar heliosphere and the objects that interact with it. These objects can be: planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres, the solar corona, the interstellar medium. Heliophysics combines other disciplines, including branches of astrophysics, plasma physics, and solar physics.
Project design: 2008
Release: 08/12/2018
First closest approximation: 04/28/2021
Mission: Discover why the solar corona is so hot in relation to the surface and how it interferes with space weather and what influences the planets it orbits.
The mission involves the probe coming within about 6.5 million km of the Sun's surface.
The Sun: Its core temperature is around 15 million degrees Celsius, an average of 5,5000˚C on its surface and over 1 million degrees Celsius in its photosphere.
Why study the solar corona? What most intrigues scientists and astronomers is understanding why the solar corona is so much hotter than the solar surface. It is around 300 times hotter than the surface (scorching). This temperature divergence discovery was made nearly 80 years ago.
Fun fact: We talk about the surface of the Sun, but in fact there is no solar surface! The Sun is a star of more than 4.5 Bi years old, formed of plasma, gases, atomic explosions, rocks and an atmospheric pressure and magnetic force so great that it holds all these materials together, which makes any human approach to the star unfeasible. As increasing heat and pressure push this material away from the Sun, there is a point in space where gravity and magnetic fields are too weak to contain it.
Where has Parker gotten so far? So far we know that the probe arrived between a point between the atmosphere and the solar wind called the critical surface – Alfvén – where no probe has ever crossed this boundary, hence the term “touching the Sun”.
What is Alfven? In plasma physics, an Alfvén wave, named after Hannes Alfvén, is a type of plasma wave in which ions oscillate in response to a restoring force provided by an effective voltage in the magnetic field lines.
Solar Switchback Discoveries: Parker was able to record the Solar Switchbacks, which are magnetic funnels that generate explosions and release of helium gas in large quantities. There is a theory that this could be where the solar winds originate.
Hackathon Journey
The Space Apps has been an instigate challenge due our team doesn't have any coder, Dev, robotic or computer data analyst.
So we've worked in non-coder challenge options.
Our team is made of three incredible out of the box thinkers that could find some limitations on NASA website to disseminate all your discoveries, missions and great informations making accessible to worldwide internauts.
We've made this chatbot prototype to show how NASA's information can be simplified in accessibility matter and make it in an IA Chatbot with intuitive conversation, seeking for stimulate continuous conversation with the public.