High-Level Project Summary
The name of our project is "JW's Skills". The name itself expresses the essence of the game and its purpose. Since our task was to convey to children the possibilities of the telescope through the game, the game has a single function. Our game is based on the capabilities of a telescope and a 3D space model. Although there have been other models of space before, ours is fascinating. In addition to the fact that the user learns space, the user is given the opportunity to learn the abilities of the telescope
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
When the user enters the game, an endless expanse of space appears in front of him. Igroe adjusts the game for himself and begins the study. A scientist appears in front of him with a task that he must complete in order to unlock one of the telescope skills that will be needed when studying the next object. The telescope has 12 such skills, after he opened all the skills. The user can explore space without restrictions. Of course, in the future I would like to come up with a series of tasks to make the game more interesting.
To create, we used the Unity program and the C# programming language.
Space Agency Data
On the third day of the flight to the L2 point, Webb successfully passed one of the most difficult stages of its space journey: using 90 cables and 107 descent devices, it deployed a heat shield. Then he deployed his main mirror, and within 30 days he reached his permanent location at the Lagrange point.
In early February, the telescope sent the first images back to Earth. He photographed his primary mirror and the sun-like star HD 84406. It is 260 light-years from the Sun. Since Webb took pictures with each segment of its mirror separately, which are not yet completely aligned, the result is a mosaic of 18 images. Now the scientists will adjust the mirrors for several months until the dots come together.
In addition to the photo of the star, the telescope took a "selfie" of the mirror. The picture was taken thanks to an additional lens inside the infrared camera. One of the segments is overexposed because it was aimed at a space object. "Selfie" was needed by scientists to clarify the location of the segments of the mirror.
Hackathon Journey
The team and I are strangers, so it was difficult to find a common language. At work, there were disagreements, misunderstandings. They were present during the entire period of work on the project. But despite this, we decided on the challenge and completed the project. This challenge attracted us because, in addition to programming skills, we had to show creativity. Also during the process we learned a lot of new things and learned about space. We thank all the mentors of American Space Dushanbe and the organizers of the project
References
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/multimedia/images.html
https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_viewer.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/images/index.html
Tags
#space #teleskop #game