High-Level Project Summary
Our solution for the challenge is to create a website that talks about the journey of the parker solar probe from the theory of the solar wind to the launch, the way of creating the website that will appeal to the new audience, because most people use website in their lifestyles for searching and finding information, so we get the idea of the website to be practical and easy to use. The website will mainly consist of a journey, We divided the journey into 3 levels, this journey contains simplified information that are easy to understand by the young audience, these levels talk about the journey from the first theory of the solar wind to the closest approach to the sun in 2025.
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Detailed Project Description
After choosing our challenge to be “On the way to the sun”, we wanted to find a creative way to deliver the fascinating story of the Parker solar probe and all the research and development that took place during the mission to deliver this breakthrough to humanity, as well as the various scientists who contributed to this breakthrough, most notably Eugene Parker, whom the probe was named after. After various research about how we can deliver this valuable information, especially to a younger audience. We decided that the best way in our opinion to deliver this information is to make a website that would take the audience on an unforgettable journey through the wonders of this scientific breakthrough. While the website is mostly designed to appeal to the younger audience with simple vocabulary and information without getting into the very specific details and numbers, it also has a section full of scientific articles full of the slightest bits of details, this section is going to appeal to the older audience that is interested in the very specific details of the journey since it’s filled to the brim with details. Now returning to the main part of the website, the audience will be welcomed with their entrance to the journey, once the audience embarks on the journey, they will find out that this magnificent journey is divided into three levels, each of which represents a part of the timeline of the Parker solar probe, from the theory of solar wind back in 1942 to the near future in 2025 when the problem will make its closest approach to the sun. The first level takes place between 1942 and 1988 and introduces us to the great physicist Eugene Parker, and most of the scientists involved in the discovering of solar wind and solar plasma streams emitted from the sun at great speeds, it also introduces us to other spacecraft that helped in this discovery like the soviet spacecraft Luna 1 that was the first spacecraft to leave the geocentric orbit, it also directly made measures about the solar wind for the first time proving key points in Parker’s theory, also the NASA Mariner 2 that sensed the presence of two distinct solar wind streams, one slower than the others, this level also introduces us to the various levels of the solar atmosphere, beginning from the extremely dense and hot core, to the lower density and temperature convection zone to the relatively cozy temperature of the corona layer compared to the core, the temperature drops down dramatically from 15 million degrees Celsius at the core to 5500 degrees Celsius at the corona, we also make a brief introduction about magnetic switchbacks that faced the probe during its journey. The second level takes place between 1990 and 2018 and speaks about the proposition of the idea of a spacecraft that would fly inside the corona and the beginning of the construction process that took place between 2010 and 2018, this level discusses the Ulysses mission which flew over the sun’s north and south poles for the first time, discovering that the fast solar wind comes from the poles while the slow solar wind comes from equatorial regions during minimal solar activity, this level mainly discusses the various systems found in the Parker solar probe, like the WISPR system that was the system responsible for the images taken for mars and the coronal plasma, also like the FIELDS system that measures the turbulences in solar radiation in the inner heliosphere, it will also help with the understanding of fields associated with waves, shocks, and magnetic reconnection, most importantly this level will discuss the side of the probe that opposes the intense heat of the sun and the cooling system. The third level discusses the journey of the probe from its launch in 2018 until it made contact with the corona in 2021 and until it will make its closest approach to the sun shortly in 2025, discussing the way it made 7 flybys by Venus until it got enough momentum and was set in the trajectory that made it touch the sun as well as how it stayed cool during that journey facing the intense heat of the sun while satisfying its objectives of studying magnetic fields, plasma, energetic particles, and images
the solar wind. After finishing each level, the audience will take a quick quiz to ensure that they were paying attention and make them never forget this valuable information. All the articles and levels on our website will be backed up with figures, graphs, images, and videos that will help illustrate the information, in addition to that we will make a game that will be associated with our website that will let them relive the moment of the launch of the probe. We will further improve the website by building it from the ground up instead of using google sites, also adding any new information we find useful, and constantly releasing new articles.
Space Agency Data
NASA helps us to get more information about our challenge that is “on the way to the sun” and our solution is inspired from the lifestyle of the new audience because these audiences spend their time on mobile and use many platforms and many sites.
Then, we take all the information from NASA (sites, research paper, videos) and this is the most platform that are related to the space and are supervised on all missions that travel to the space.
These are about the information about the parker solar probe, but we designed the website from Google site because we don’t have time to make it. So, we decided to make the website from Google site initially, but we will continue it.
Hackathon Journey
The Hackathon experience was a new kind of experience for the entire team. The concept of having only 48 hours to find a solution to one of the challenges and execute it well before presenting it in front of the judges when the 48 hours are over. We learned how to think differently and how to choose the right, "On The way to The Sun" was one of the best challenges that we have worked on, it expressed the whole journey of Parker Solar Probe and Eugene Parker, the benefits they have contributed to the knowledge that we have about our solar system, and we were inspired by them, so we wanted to share their achievements with the young and general audience, that's why we chose this challenge. We approached this challenge as if we are telling a story, a story of tremendous research, effort, and commitment, that’s why we decided to design a website that will take its users on journey consisting of three levels that go through the process of making of the Parker solar probe, from the first theory of solar wind in 1942 to the closest approach of the probe to the sun in 2025. The major setbacks that we faced during the process of making the website during the hackathon, was that we thought that we have enough time until we found out that the time ran out quickly, that's why we decided to stay up all night to finish our project and we regulated our time to finish, we would like to thank the organizing team of the hackathon for perfectly executing the event.
References
Parker Solar Probe - Mission News. NASA. Retrieved October 1, 2022, from
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-mission-news
This includes the history and the time line of the Mission of solar parker probe and we used this info in
the website to make the articles and levels
Parker Solar Probe Instruments. NASA. Retrieved October 1, 2022, from
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-instruments
This includes info about the parts and structure of solar parker probe that we used in filling the second
level in the website
10 things to know about parker solar probe – NASA solar system exploration. NASA. Retrieved October
1, 2022, from https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/522/10-things-to-know-about-parker-solar-probe/
This includes info about how does solar parker probe consume and gain energy from, that we uses in
the 3rd level
NASA enters the solar atmosphere for the first time. NASA. Retrieved October 1, 2022, from
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-timebringing-new-discoveries
This includes info about the part from which solar parker probe entered the atmosphere of the Sun
Switchbacks science: Explaining parker solar probe's magnetic puzzle. NASA. Retrieved October 1, 2022,
from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/switchbacks-science-explaining-parker-solar-probes-magnetic-puzzle
Includes info about the switchbacks that happens in the space from the sun, and we used this info in the
articles
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