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Global Nominee
3D Exploration
High-Level Project Summary
A 3D educational and exploratory video game simulates Perseverance rover from Mars 2020 Mission to help the new astronomy scientists and any interested ones to experience a journey to Mars
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
What exactly does it do?
It's a video game that simulates Perseverance rover from Mars 2020 Mission.
How does it work?
it simulates the main phases of perseverance rover landing. the original sequence according to NASA is described in the following figure
reference: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/2-pia24285_1a-edl-annotated-2500.jpg?itok=4Y-LlhR9
and in this video (by NASA)
https://youtu.be/tITni_HY1Bk
our simulation has the following phases:
- Phase01 :Stage Separation,
- Phase02: De spinning,
- Phase03: Enter Atmosphere,
- Phase04:Deploy Parachute,
- Phase05: Split Heat Shield,
- Phase06: Terrain Relative Navigation using Computer vision ,
- Phase07: Detach Descending Unit,
- Phase08: Approach Land Slowly,
- Phase09:Drop Rover
- Phase10: Collect Sample,
- Phase11 :Analyses Sample,
- Phase12 :Send Results To Earth
according to time, we have done some parts only of the application (7 phases coding), in the following figure we present what we have done so far.
1-the environment design
2-UI:
3-importing 3 models:
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the Application is hosted as web application online (in-browser) using the following url:
https://waleedmmgmailcom.itch.io/mars-landing-simulation
after navigating to that page, choose (start game) and wait few minutes to load the game from server
unfortunately, we couldn't complete the game to the end. However, we hope that it can be a good start for us in next year s.
what benefits does it have?
- Simulation to the real Mission.
- Thrilling Interactive Game.
- Thrilling Interactive Game.
- It's a 3D video game which makes the feeling close to the reality.
What do you hope to achieve?
We hope people would know more about the missions to Mars and get the real feeling of the journey. We also hope they will learn a lot from the scientific details which are included.
What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?
- 3D Unity
- Blender
- Visual Studio (C# PL)
- free online Assets: Unity assets store, IconFinder.Com, FreeSound.Org, NASA 3d Models
Project Source Code:
Github Repository (https://github.com/waleedmm/NASA_MARS_travel_Contest2021.git )
Space Agency Data
What space agency data weused in our project?
We only used NASA Space agency data. After all, our game is about simulating their Mars 2020 mission.
How did it inspired our project?
We got the inspiration after watching this simulation of EDL (Entry- Descent- landing) :
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/#/home?time=2021-02-18T22:26:45.816+02:00
And then we said why don't we turn it into a video game to let anyone to experience the real feeling of travelling to Mars.
Hackathon Journey
our Team members are from Mansoura University, faculty of Computer and Information Systems. Our Team has searched many challenges in NASA space app hackton page and finally agreed to choose landing on Mars as selected project. we hope that this Project can be interesting to you.
References
- https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/mars2020/#/home?time=2021-02-18T22:26:45.816+02:00
Tags
#perservance #mars #rover
Global Judging
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