OUR PROJECT
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THE PROBLEM
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DESCRIPTION
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WHY THIS CHALLENGE?
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FUTURE SCOPE
As stated in the challenge objective, NASA and other agencies are making rapid developments with their scientific projects, but there still are ways to be discovered through which the details of such missions can be provided to everyone in an artistic way such that the boundaries of race, caste, creed, et cetera can be removed.
STEAM is something we have always been deeply involved in, and considering the fact that we were lovers of space, we knew plenty about quite a few of NASA's historical missions. Thus, this challenge was the perfect fit for us. We decided to tackle it to not only prove our skills, but also to polish them.
Our project is an interactive website and its respective Android app. It targets the Mars Science Laboratory mission and its Curiosity rover and conveys its details through STEAM. Extensive amounts of data and resources concerning this mission, as well as an open API was required from NASA in order to make the project possible.
Our project can be considered as complete, but as a prototype since it has so much more potential! Similar versions of this tool for different missions of various space agencies can also be made, so that more and more information can effectively be conveyed to the public.
Animation Work
Curiosity Animation
Curiosity/MSL Books
Curiosity Quiz
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SCIENCE
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Our first section involves conveying scientific information about our targeted mission through the art of animation and game-making. The animation conveys the history as well as amazing facts about the Curiosity rover and utilizes animations and the 3D model of the rover by NASA. The game is made from Quiz Maker and involves an interactive scientific quiz regarding the information conveyed by the video. This section also includes a link to a database we created that contains information about various well-rated books that cover the topic of MSL and Curiosity.
Product
Offer
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Curiosity Footage
Home Page
TECHNOLOGY
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Next comes the section on technology. This includes a React App from a GitHub repository that we modified in order to serve our purpose. The app covered the footage of all rovers on Mars, but we modified it to focus on only Curiosity. NASA's open API is used here. The artistic factor of this feature is the use of code to utilize the API since coding itself is an art. We also programmed a site-navigating voice assistant through the art of code that can state facts taken from NASA’s site according to phrases uttered by user.
Curiosity Daily Weather
Voice Assistant
Our 3D Model
ARTS/
ENGINEERING
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Then is the part that covers the engineering of the rover through arts. This section includes videos of us sketching the rover through a small, fun comic as well as constructing its simple 3D model. The purpose of this section is to convey information regarding the construction and engineering of Curiosity through simple artistic videos.
Comic Hyperlapse
The Comic
NASA's 3D Model
Maths Animation
Scratch Game
MATHEMATICS
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Finally, we have Mathematics. This also includes the art of animation and game-making. The animation conveys mathematical information (through a derivation) about the Curiosity rover in an interactive way while the quiz game is made with Scratch. The quiz game includes simple problems concerning the rover and involve simple formulas such as velocity, unit conversion, et cetera.