ANTARIKSH

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The Sun is the closest star to the Earth but still humanity is not able to understand how important the solar missions are and how the data collected impacts our lives on Earth. Here, we aimed to design an interactive and immersive tool to improve public knowledge of the many spacecraft exploring the Sun – including Parker Solar Probe which would help the public to understand how these missions determine the way we live, work or play. It will also encourage people to look forward to the future of solar explorations.

We, Team Antariksh, through our website platform ‘SUNSITE’ achieved the above mentioned objective of educating the common mass more about the Sun and sparked an interest in them. We completed the journey to create a platform through which we can make ‘Sun’ a more explorable subject than ever before. With the help and support of various features that are provided on our website, we can reach and connect with people from all parts of the society and form a like-minded community who wish to explore the Sun at their fingertips. We have built the first fully dedicated online platform for exploring the Sun on a global level. We have kept this platform open for all, people can utilize this platform on various levels starting from publishing their articles or writing blogs on our site to just clarifying doubts or just taking part in a discussion in the chat forum. And hence made the sun more accessible and updated to everyone than ever before.

On surveying nearly 200 students it was evident that they were curious about ML models and how they can help in exploration and understanding of the Sun so we developed and deployed AI and ML models for solar exploration.

So here is a particular application of ML to Heliophysics. Our team found a dataset from kaggle which had the data about monthly sunspots observed during the period 1800 – 2019. We trained a LSTM based Neural Network on the data and tried to forecast the results in the test dataset and the model’s performance was astonishing. This could give people a lot of information on how data from solar expeditions could look and what we can do with that data. It helped us to understand the solar cycles and their occurrences. We also built a machine learning model to predict and forecast the geomagnetic disturbances caused due to solar wind which can help us understand a lot of natural phenomena like solar flares, Auroras and most importantly in terraforming Mars.

The saga of SUN the star is a short animation created using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. This animation aims to present the solar information in the form of a fairy tale and is designed especially for the kids so as to take them into a wide world of imagination while intriguing them at the same time about the universe to which we belong. The story revolves around the adventures of the Sun from the beginning of the universe and depicts a one-sided love story of the Sun and the Earth where the sun eventually ends up saving the earth by supporting various of its space missions. 

Overall what we achieved was better user engagement, subscription based updation on solar missions, increased public awareness via effective use of visuals and storyline, accurate solar weather forecasting along with intrigued imagination and curiosity among younger generation about the future of peaceful coexistence of the Sun and the Earth. This is how we will encourage the future generation in how the future solar missions will look like and what aspects of the Sun would it explore.

• Parker Solar Probe Science Gateway: https://sppgway.jhuapl.edu/

This site provided us most of our data and visualization tools we used in our ppt. We had lots of fun discovering new details of the PSP over this site.

• 3D Model of Parker Solar Probe: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2356/parker-solar-probe-3d-model/

We got a 3D digital model of Parker Solar Probe from this site, which helped us to visualize the probe efficiently and identify the scientific payloads associated with it.

• Newsletters and live updates of Parker Solar Probe: http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/
• Newsletters: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-approves-heliophysics-missions-to-explore-sun-earth-s-aurora

We got most of live updates from this site, it was immensely helpful.

• Dataset for the ML model from Kaggle :https://www.kaggle.com/
• NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/

Last but not the least we would thank NASA's official website for information on solar wind, flares and CMEs, it helped us form the story of our animated short story.

Through the course of these 2 days we tinkered, experimented, did a lot of brainstorming but most importantly we learned. The topic, “UNLOCKING THE SECRET OF THE SUN” awoke childlike curiosity among us and through our project, “SUNSITE”, we aim to impart the same curiosity in every human being. It was particularly fun to go through the sites of NASA, ESA, JAXA and other space agency in search of open data. Hackathon days were really stressful but very enjoyable at the same time. The things that we have learned in the process of this hackathon will surely play a pivotal role in shaping our future and we hope that the project we made will shape the future of solar exploration.

https://sppgway.jhuapl.edu/

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2356/parker-solar-probe-3d-model/

http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-approves-heliophysics-missions-to-explore-sun-earth-s-aurora

https://www.kaggle.com/

https://www.wikipedia.org/

https://www.nasa.gov/

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This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.