Solactis

Universal Event | On the Way to the Sun

Solactis

High-Level Project Summary

The project aims to bring visual information of the Sun's activity via a calendar presentation UI. This way more people are aware that our nearby star is similar to a living and hot breathing organism.Sun spots and sun activity are especially important for climate change as well as overall planetary climate and atmosphere effects.By bringing direct visual info of this, we aim to make this sensitive subject more important and bring awareness of the vast implications.

Link to Final Project

https://clipstrategy.com/apps/solactis/

Link to Project "Demo"

https://clipstrategy.com/apps/solactis/

Detailed Project Description

With Sol.Act.Ti.S we aim to bring to the people a perspective on when the Sun is more active.


The project presents an intuitive UI for a web user using a monthly calendar of the Sun's actiivity

The bigger the day number inside the rounded-date-tile,

the more active the Sun was on that day.


How is the size calculated

The more active pixels (non-black ones) we have on the video animation, the bigger the size of the file.

Which in turns means more activity. Hence the size is proportional to the actual video size.




Data origination

All data originate from https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov in real-time.

Space Agency Data

All data originate from https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov in real-time.


Specifically the data are in real-time acquired from a link like :

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/dailymov/2022/07/16/


then analyzed locally from Solactis web application and presented in a UI.

Hackathon Journey

Nowadays evident climate change plays a big role in everyone's daily life. Yet we seldomly attribute this to entities in space that can really affect it.

Nor we know how or whether we should monitor situations of this kind.


Our Sun is one of the biggest players when it comes to planetary-wide changes.


The journey of the hackathon is like every year a journey of knowledge.

Knowledge in technology, as well as astronomy and a way to look to the stars.


The Sun, our nearest star is one that we can every day look to.

Yet we seldomly do that with a scientific "eye".

Solactis is a small project, from one man that was always looking to the Stars for inspiration.

This is the bigger journey, and NASA hackathons provides a way to actually visualize part of this journey.

References

Data sources :

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov


Tools used :

Visual Studio 2019 community edition

Tags

#sun, #looktothestars

On the Way to the Sun

On April 28, 2021, during its eighth flyby of the Sun, Parker Solar Probe did what no other human-made object has ever done: it “touched” the Sun—meaning the spacecraft flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere (the corona) and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. Your challenge is to develop a creative way to tell young audiences the inspiring story of Parker’s record-breaking journey from Earth to the Sun and all the perils it overcame on the way.