High-Level Project Summary
Our idea for the solution of this project was that we wanted to make a mini series about the Parker Solar Probe's journey. We developed a website where we uploaded the aforementioned mini series. Our team believes that it could be a fun and effective way to educate younger audiences about this satellite's amazing journey. This mission is very important because it may change the course of history. The mission is not finished yet, but even by now it has achieved things and broken records that were once thought impossible. It was the first human-made object to ever "touch" the Sun.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
As we have previously said we made a website where we uploaded our mini series of the Parker Solar Probe's journey, a "trailer" for it and some real footage of Parker Solar Probe. The challenge was to create a story with which we could teach the younger audience with. Our team created this story by merging the real Parker Solar Probe's facts, with the myth of Icarus and Daedalus. This myth is one of the most famous ones ever created. We started with the creation of the web-site, using the "SITE123" online web-site creator and it helped us a lot because we posted images, videos, texts and headlines, links and many other animations without using any coding. We hope that our creativity will attract as many users as possible through this web-site. Young people often love watching TV series, and we as a part of them do too. So we thought that it would be a great idea to do a mini series where people would watch them and actually get some useful knowledge for this mission. After we filmed a few parts of the series, we also attached them to our web site with an additional "trailer". Which is actually the video behind the process of making the series and the project. The videos we attached are supposed to look like episodes from a series.
Space Agency Data
The references that we have used during researching about the Parker Solar Probe's voyage and facts are listed a little bit further down in the questions. A few years back, during our elementary education, we learned about different myths. One of those myths was the myth of Icarus and Daedalus. We were inspired by it, so that is the reason why we merged it with the Parker Solar Probe's journey. Our team thinks that this is a great idea for the story.
Hackathon Journey
This was a really great experience for us and we are glad that we had the chance to be a part of a competition like this. We did not really know a lot about this mission at first, but upon researching about the Parker Solar Probe's journey we learned a lot of new information and facts about the probe itself and about the Sun's atmosphere and corona. What inspired our team to choose the "On the way to the sun" challenge, was our love and passion for astronomy and science in general. The hardest part for our team was getting an idea on how to "solve" the problem that was standing before us. We tried a few ideas at first, but they all failed. At last, we got a simple but a great idea that could be the solution of this challenge. The first setback was when one of our teammates got injured. He fell and broke his leg, just three days after we registered for this competition. His leg is still in a cast and he wasn't able to come, however we overcame this by never giving up and doing everything we could personally , as well as together. Other setback are as we previously have said that some of our ideas failed. But we never gave up and came up with new ideas and that part was the hardest. The execution of our idea was the easier part.
References
https://www.space.com/40437-parker-solar-probe.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/traveling-to-the-sun-why-won-t-parker-
solar-probe-melt/
https://www.universetoday.com/151112/what-weve-learned-about-venus-from-the-
parker-solar-probe/
http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/overview/
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/08/06/parker-solar-probe-heat-shield-explained/
Tags
#sun #parkersolarprobe #onthewaytothesun #website