Passengers 69| Virtual Planetary Exploration
Virtual Planetary Exploration
A new way , a new moon!
Summary
It is a detecting robot that contains several sensors, with 4 stages, to analyze the rocks and take valuable ones from the planets' surface. We used Aurdino to control sensors codes,integrate them and send received data to the International Space Station.We used the following sensors:1) infrared sensor -IR sensor, will measure the infrared light that radiates from the rocks (thermal mapping). 2) ultrasonic sensor:To measure The distance between the robot and samples.3)The Hall IC sensor, to measure the magnetic permeability of minerals inside the rock (paramagnetic,diamagnetic or ferromagnetic). 4) UV sensor, to detect fluorescent minerals..All values're specified to meet requirements.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Not Far long , Human seemed to go discovering other worlds. For example, the moon!
Moon landing starting from the first mission in 1969 through the Apollo missions, and the last one was Apollo 17. These missions collected a lot of valuable data about the lunar samples and their nature. it helped in reshaping our understanding of the moon , entire solar system and the whole world. Despite this, it encountered some difficulties in determining the value of the rocks to be taken and it took the astronauts a lot of time and effort.
A good mapping and imaging of the soil and rocks of the moon not only helps us in understanding the origin of the universe and our planet, but also in discovering new minerals and elements that may benefit the whole of humanity.
Based on that, we decided to develop a self- controlled mechanical system that depends on different stages and we have relied on more than one feature to determine the value of minerals and rocks, and help the astronauts, scientists and geologists in their missions .
The robot is consist of ultraviolet light (UV) sensor, infrared light (IR) sensor, Hall ic sensor (IC) ultrasonic and humidity sensor.
All values are specified to meet the requirements. After this, Arduino collect the data, integrate them and then the camera photograph it and send all the information to the international station . We hope to help all scientists and space agencies more in developing systems to discover the space.
How We Developed This Project
we benefited from Nasa's Apollo missions and spaceX starship moon landing in collecting the data about lunar soil and rocks . we also used from it in selecting the best design for our robot. we used cinema 4D application in making the 3d model, Adobe premiere in making the video and other programs like word,ppt.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
we take benefit from NASA's past experiences missions in launching detecting rovers in the moon and mars to develop our construction and design . we used the data collected from samples to determine valuable ones.
Project Demo
Data & Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/topic_5_initial_artemis_geology_sampling_tools.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/pdf/A17_PressKit.pdf
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/tools/Welcome.html
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/overview/
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/apollo50th/back.html