High-Level Project Summary
Our goal in our project is to make Titan suitable for human life by sending various organisms there, studying the conditions there, and creating an organism suitable for those conditions. Our goal was to create this organism by taking advantage of the rapid evolution of biotechnological developments in recent years. We have created our own organism by taking certain genes from certain organisms. In order to make Titan suitable for human habitation. As a result the organism we have created will be able to live on Titan and also help humanity to build life on Titan in the future
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We designed our project with using Minecraft. We designed our own organism in there and sent it to Titan. Since Minecraft is very easy to use, we designed our project without any difficulty. Thanks to the multiplayer feature, we were able to share our project with each other.
Space Agency Data
We used the articles that NASA gave us as a source and we got an idea from what we read in those articles and shaped our project accordingly.
Hackathon Journey
Participating Space Apps has been a great experience for all of us. We learned many things such as how to research about space, how to examine scientific articles, and most importantly, we learned to study as a team in collaboration. While choosing this challenge, we read all the challenges and thought that this was the most suitable for us since we all had an interest in biology. At the final point, we think we did a great job working as a team. We would like to thank all NASA employees, Mr. Selman Canlı and our teachers Hande and Duygu who are in our team and always support us.
References
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/10.0003519
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2015/863075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC419922/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile
https://theconversation.com/saturns-moon-titan-may-harbour-simple-life-forms-and-reveal-how-organisms-first-formed-on-earth-81527
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanotroph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29990451/#:~:text=Methanogenesis%20is%20an%20anaerobic%20respiration,reduced%20to%20H2O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_respiration
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4335971/#:~:text=The%20anaerobic%20oxidation%20of%20methane,%2Dreducing%20bacteria%20(SRB).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3444770/
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20026/organic-compounds-in-titan-s-seas-and-lakes/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014579398013751
Tags
#biology #titan #space #minecraft #superhero #organisms