High-Level Project Summary
We, Lucy’s fate comprises of 5 members and have come together to create a 3D model that aids in helping budding minds visualize the asteroids Lucy would face. It combines various forms of simplistic artistic expressions to provide the viewer with an easy to understand baseline for thought and discussion about Lucy and its importance. Our writeup comprises of some important details, like the shade of an asteroid and captions regarding the type it is, to enable the general audience to make connections and figure out for themselves just how diverse asteroids can be. We hope to start a discussion on Lucy and just how much of a feat it is. After all, it is the first to meet the Trojans!
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Our team has, as mentioned before, created a 3D demonstration. The 3D demonstration works on 2D elements, and in this case, the asteroids. The rainbow colored shades on the asteroids depict a specification on the parameters the spacecraft will be finding. These parameters could be the Albeto, density of the asteroids, masses, chemical composition on the surface and sub-surface, and many more. We hope these 2D models of the asteroids can be used by future aspirants of 3D video/project making so they get a head start. The software Canva was used to make the parameters of the asteroids, and the software Blender was used for the 3D images.
The write up given in JPEGs are to be used after watching the video. This is there to provide further information on the asteroids itself and the diversity it portrays with facts regarding them. Both components of our project were made with the help of NASA’s database.
Space Agency Data
NASA’s data helped in absolutely stellar ways. The foundation of this project lies in the information that we have collected and repurposed in the video and the writeup. --We have first used NASA’s music to create an aesthetic to the project itself, adding another media form that brings out our project from the box--. We have used various data from NASA's websites for in depth analysis of the different types of asteroids, and to structure our 2D models from the pictures provided. A very underrated and almost forgotten resource was the “potential considerations’ in part of the details section for our challenge. It was a gold mine of data as it had quick to understand and short bursts of information that made further research on the topics a lot more manageable. We strive to be as concise as that!
Hackathon Journey
Our Space Apps experience was out of this world(pun intended)! The chatroom feature is a great way of getting to know people as well as the feature that indicates a certain team would like new members (this is how some of our team got to know each other!). There were a lot of great minds pitching their interests and challenges they would like to take part in. The youth-friendly challenges in particular were the ones who brought high school students whereas the other hackathon based challenges introduced the university going students in the scene that created a launchpad of connecting ideas between people, no matter the education level or place. When it came to brainstorming ideas, a few came and went but the one that stuck was to create a simple 3D video. Our main goals aligned- whatever we were making a project on, it had to appeal to everyone no matter if you had prior experience or research regarding asteroids or not, as well, we were like that too before we started! A few hiccups did come on the road only to be solved with patience and effective communication with teammates. We would like to thank NASA and its spaceapp team globally for providing us an opportunity to let our minds wander to create physical presentations that hope to see the light of day and educate the inspired ones, nonetheless. We hope to hear from you this year soon!
References
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index
http://lucy.swri.edu/2018/Asteroid-Taxonomy.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/lucy/in-depth/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/how-were-the-trojan-asteroids-discovered-and-named
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-a-satellite-58.html
Tags
#Lucy #Spacecraft #Diversity #Trojanasteroids #mainbeltasteroids
Global Judging
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