Star Dust

Islamabad | Artfully Illuminated Asteroids

Asteroids- the fundamental matters of the solar system

High-Level Project Summary

Asteroids are the remnants of planetesimals bodies in the inner solar system formed during the planet formation from molecular cloud around 4.5 billion years ago. There are significant objects in the solar system, which helps in the formation of the biosphere of the rocky planet in the solar system in past history. This project, "Artfully Illuminated Asteroids," is a challenge about the recognition of NASA's Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids, which assist our understanding of the planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. After spending many hours searching, marking, and gathering information, our team made the perfect video that demonstrates the importance of this mission.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewjTxSUBrYgyI2z4pc3aaEzpOFgnqptb/view?usp=sharing

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ewjTxSUBrYgyI2z4pc3aaEzpOFgnqptb/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Our team chose "Artfully Illuminated Asteroids" because we believe we can point out our skills in the best form possible thru this challenge. The team members took their time for research and learned a lot of new things about asteroids and the Lucy mission itself.

Our job was to illustrate the diversity that Lucy will explore, and we did it in the best way possible. We created a video from which people with zero knowledge about asteroids, can learn everything about what they are, how they are made , what form they have, in what way they interact with other objects in space, everything about asteroid belts and the connection with NASA's Lucy mission. It is edited in a way that most people could understand the topic and be interested in hearing more about it.

We hope that we will be able to attract attention about this topic and share the importance of NASA's next step- sending a spacecraft to study the Trojan asteroids. In the making of this video, we used many tools that made our demonstration look special (animaker, voice recorder, screen recorder, NASA's data resources along with other and etc.) . Trojans watch out, here comes Lucy!

Space Agency Data

With the help of NASA's data resources, we were able to find most of the information that was important for us to know about the Lucy mission. Not only that, we were provided with numerous example videos which helped us go in the right direction while creating the project. It helped by giving us an idea of what the demonstration should consist and boosted our creativity. We used many photos that made our video look spectacular. Thanks to all of the resources our team had everything we needed to make our mission complete. This Hackathon made us still more skilled and we have gained still more experience. We are very much thankful for this Hackathon because of which we understood and also this understanding and exploring about Asteroids is what we enjoyed the most, had a great Hackathon.

Hackathon Journey

We are over the moon to participate in this Artfully Illuminated Asteroids. We faced many challenges while working on this production of a video which is purely made by the Star Dust team. For us, the Space Apps challenge is a form of a community where people meet, interact, work and share ideas with each other. Our team consist four members, and none of us knew each other before attending the challenge. But, after finding out about this existing challenge, we all shared the same feeling of happiness and confidence, ready to try to break our limits and experience new things that Space Apps gives to us. This is our third time participating as a team on the Space Apps challenge, and every time it just gets better and better. Not only we are able to meet new people, but we also have the ability to share our skills and expand our knowledge on different branches. This year, we decided we want to learn more about asteroids and NASA's Lucy mission and share all of that to our readers. As a team, we all shared the work depending on our skillsets and managed to reach our final goal, which was explaining the importance of this mission and what effect it has towards all of us. First, we would like to thank each other, for being so cooperative, hard working and understanding through out this wonderful journey, and then we would like to thank all of our families and friends for being so supportive of our hard work. And for last, we would like to thank NASA, ESA and JAXA for making all of this possible for us, it means a lot. We hope our work will get recognized this year and we wish the best of luck to all participants this year. Can't wait to see all of your work!