X-Planet.| Can You Hear Me Now?
Can You Hear Me Now?
X-Planet.
Summary
The project is based on two things. First, collecting all the data about mars from more than 20 websites and 5 books and present it in the form of a mobile application, website, and one book. Second, put an idea to improve the current communication systems for example Deep-Space Network by controlling time and quality. The first thing decreases the time by specifying the frequency second to Determine the appropriate time so that Mars is the closest point to the Earth. Second, take a high-quality photo by making a new system with more telescopes that will reduce a bigger diameter so the quality will increase.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Before sending an astronaut to Mars, we must know how we will communicate with him so that we do not lose him the challenge, for example, a reply to a question may take over twenty minutes to receive because of the incredible distance the communication signal must travel. Find a system with a short time and high quality this is our mission and that will happen by improving the current systems and this is what we did.
First of all, we should select the point that we’ll improve so we’ll start with increasing the quality. Putting more telescopes around earth and mars will receive the signals easily, also, to make the photos better. This is exactly what they made to monitor the first image of a black hole, they needed a telescope whose diameter is the same as the diameter of the earth, but this is considered impossible, so they distributed telescopes on the surface of the earth and connected them to a network so that they gave us one telescope of a diameter equal to the diameter of the earth so if we use all telescopes on the earth to explore mars we’ll see more details.
We also could use the law of magnification that says by increasing the dimeter will decrease the angular resolution so will increase the magnification and that will give a perfect image.
Imagine that we are going to make this network. It will take a long time for the signal to reach us because the signal passes from one telescope to another. So, what can we do? We thought about using high-frequency waves like x-rays However, the signal may be cut off easily because it is not able to penetrate easily but it is will be faster.
Now, why NASA uses radio waves? And their better waves to use? The answer is no. In fact, there are many advantages of radio waves like determining the electromagnetic spectra of planets, travel in long distances, and work all day!
Finally, any systems should have advantages and disadvantages so these our ideas to increase the advantages and decrease the disadvantage.
How We Developed This Project
Communicating with the robot that will be launched is the most important part of the mission, what is its use if there is no communication and gathering information and pictures? So, we chose this challenge the importance of communication systems.
The strategy that we followed to make our project was to search for previous solutions, gather strengths, weaknesses, and causes of failure, and work to transform this failure into success by putting ideas to improve the weak points.
First, the tools & software & hardware that we used in the application were: Android Studio, GitHub, DaVinci Resolve 16, Windows 10, and HP Laptop (Intel Core i7, 1050Ti GeForce GTX, RAM 16GB DDR4, 128GB SSD). Second, programming languages were: Java, HTML, XML. For website first tools & hardware & software: Visual studio code, GitHub, Windows 10, and Pc (Core i9, Gtx1050ti,20GB ram Ddr4,512Gb SSD. Second, Languages: JavaScript, Html, and CSS.
The project was not easy. In the beginning, our biggest problems were collecting data and how to distribute tasks to us, but we solved that problem by finding our talents and giving each person a task according to his talent, so each of us has mastered his task and came up with an ideal and impressive result because he loves what he does. For example, two of us were tasked with researching and writing another one worked on the application and the fourth of us were working on the site. For our last member, his job was a design and video editing. Finally, together we can do much. Teamwork makes the dream work.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
First, we searched about to live out of the earth. Second, choose Mars because we knew all the data about it from NASA’s websites. After that, we searched on NASA's websites to collect the data about Mars’ missions. Then, searched about communication systems and the history of this to improve it and find solutions. Finally, searched about best waves to use in telescopes and we used NASA’s eyes application to determine the location of mars and from this, we could know that Mars will be at its closest point to Earth on 3, October 2020. NASA’s websites help us more to do our application, website, and book.
Data & Resources
https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/163250150894/the-past-present-and-future-of-exploration-on
https://astronomy.com/news/2018/11/a-brief-history-of-failed-mars-missions
https://earthsky.org/space/mars-night-sky-ultraviolet-light-images
https://www.seis-insight.eu/en/public-2/martian-science/internal-models-of-mars
https://mgs-mager.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/communications/
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/services/networks/sn
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1962-057A
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mariner-8-mariner-h/
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1964-078C
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/zond-3/in-depth/
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/viking-1-2/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/viking-1/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/viking-2/