High-Level Project Summary
Our project involves a video representation about how the discoveries and data collected from space exploration missions (to explore more about the functioning of the sun) affect us and our everyday life. At the same time, we emphasize our presentation towards encouraging our audience to come up with new innovative ideas for the future of such exploration missions. The video covers important aspects such as space explorations affect our everyday routine, the aims and objectives of some of these explorations, as well as two collaborative missions conducted from NASA and other space agencies, for the aim to establish a better understanding of Heliophysics: Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter
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Detailed Project Description
Our project involves a video representation about how the discoveries and data collected from space exploration missions (to explore more about the functioning of the sun) affect us and our everyday life. The video covers 3 main aspects:
- Space exploration: what it does, how it affects the way we live.
- NASA collaborative missions: Solar orbiter and Parker Solar Probe.
- Encourage viewers to become innovative: new ideas for the future of space exploration.
The main aim of the video, is to create public awareness amongst viewers, about the importance of solar exploration, and to encourage them to engage and come up with new, innovative ideas for the future of space exploration. For the project, we made use of Adobe Premier Pro to edit the video, and made use of online website repositories to collect information based on solar exploration.
Space Agency Data
We have utilized a set of information provided by NASA Resources, mainly based on topics such as past space explorations (such as the launch of Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) from 1998 to 2010), Cooperative missions conducted between NASA and other space agencies (for instance: Solar orbiter as a cooperative mission conducted from both NASA and ESA).
We used these information create a video, that highlights on how the space exploration missions that are executed to observe and collect data about the Sun, and its functions are used and applied to our everyday life.
Hackathon Journey
From the very start of the challenge, we had assigned task between our members accordingly, to utilize the limited timeline in-order to provide the best performance we could show, in a form of a video. The journey was hard, yet we were able to learn a lot throughout the activities. How the Sun play such a crucial role in our life, and the way many space explorations had been conducted, knowing and understanding them have provided us with a great set of knowledge, and helped us understand its uses and applications.
Our team, consisting of 3 members, we all had the common aim of exploring more on topics that are new to us. Being said that we are students pursuing a career widely different from space exploration and science, it posed a set of challenges on our path to complete this project, yet we all agreed to take this particular challenge as we wanted to know more about how the sun affects the living and non-living matter in this solar system. Our determination, and consecutive hours of hard work have led to the completion of the challenge, fulfilling the given objectives respectively.
Our selected challenge: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sun, had an objective to encourage users to come up with ideas for the future of space exploration. As this was more towards encouraging our audience, we thought of implementing it to a video, as it is comparatively short, and easy to understand for people from all age groups. Initially, we had a few setbacks to the completion of the challenge, in terms of the conflict in ideas for content of the video, and our way of approaching to our audience/viewers. however, we sorted out the obstacles, and assigned task to each members accordingly, in a way which we all meet up the common aim of the whole project.
First and foremost, I'd like to thank our educational institute, Asia Pacific University (APU) and our Networking module instructor, Sir Joshua Samual, for promoting and encouraging us to join the event. Moving on, I would like to thank my fellow colleagues, Loai El Khuffash, Jamolkhon and Shaikh Farheen Zakir Husain for their hard work and dedication placed towards the completion of this project.
References
Tools used:
- Adobe Premier Pro
- Microsoft Office Word
- Internet Browser
Website References:
- https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/430408-new-age-solar-system-exploration
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOng5WlS4D0&list=PL37Yhb2zout05pUjr7OoRFpTNroq_wd9f&index=5
- https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-humanity-s-first-visit-to-a-star
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/missions/index.html
- https://www.nasa.gov/content/solar-orbiter-overview
Tags
#Sun, #SpaceExploration, #Space, #Heliophysics, #NasaSpaceApps