High-Level Project Summary
Our project, under the topic of “Unlocking the secrets of the Sun” is finding out the information about our host star which were found by various Heliophysics missions throughout the years. Even though these kind of missions have done a lot of studies and analyzes of the Sun up to this day even the general public have a hard time accessing these data and information. So our project is based on finding a way to make these very important and valuable data accessible to the public. We are making these information accessible to the public through videos and a website. So the public a can get a better understanding of the working of our Sun and how it might affect the Earth too.
Link to Project "Demo"
Link to Final Project
Detailed Project Description
Our project's main objective is to make the data and information found by Heliophysics missions accessible to the public. For this, one of the main steps we took was making a youtube channel, in the modern society, it is a platform used by almost all of the people around the world. So it would be easily accessible to the public if those data was available in a platform like that. And also we made a website which can be accessed by the public including the past missions which have been launched to study and observe the Sun and their discoveries and facts.
Space Agency Data
We mostly used the data from NASA. About the Parker Solar Probe and the other probes. And some data from ESA. IT was very helpful in finding out about the heliophysics missions and their findings. And also the data from these agencies helped get an idea about the future missions that will take a part in studying about the Sun too.
Hackathon Journey
The Space Apps challenge is a very good way for students which have an interest towards astronomy to get a good hackathon experience. We chose this challenge cause the Sun is Earth's host star, and it's the main source of energy for all the organisms on Earth and the people should have a good understanding of this star and how it affects the daily lives as well as it's long term effects on Earth. Therefore we thought it would be a good idea to chose this challenge and provide the public with that essential knowledge. And as to how we approached this project our first task was finding out all the information and data about the Sun which have been discovered and identified so far by different Heliophysics missions and gather them together to make it clear to the people and also how these information have helped take decisions which would affect the lives of humans.
References
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/?search=parker+solar+probe&sort_by=relevance
https://science.nasa.gov/heliophysics
https://sppgway.jhuapl.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/sun/in-depth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_and_Heliospheric_Observatory
https://www.space.com/18501-soho-solar-heliospheric-observatory.html
https://www.nasa.gov/content/solar-orbiter-science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRACE
https://www.thesuntoday.org/missions/all-missions/
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/trace