Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

NASA’s activities in space have brought new knowledge of the Earth, inspiring new ways of thinking about humanity and the planet. However, many people aren’t aware that NASA studies the Earth in addition to other planets. Your challenge is to tell stories of NASA’s Earth science enterprise using interactive digital tools. This will test your technical skills and your ability to think like a historian or educator.

SpaceAid

Summary

SpaceAid project’s challenge is to create a Mobile App i.e., developing a digital tool incorporating text, images, sound, or videos using the data of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA for generating user experience that enables the users from bottom to top level to explore the Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Motivation

Human being is always curious about the space as well as sky, Moon & Mars. We, the human beings, won the moon and have taken the first footsteps on the lunar surface through the Apollo 11 mission. A lot of scientists and engineers from different space organizations like NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA, and ESA are continuously working and collecting billions of data per moment by observing the space along with space technology. But, is this large number of data properly distributed among the human being across the globe equally?

 

We, Team G5, developed a Mobile App i.e., a Digital Tool that ensures a good and effective experience which will bring the space station’s data in an effective way within a specific category of people close to us, and it doesn’t meet us before.


Only a limited number of astronauts and scientists across the globe work for space stations and get the opportunity to observe the space as well as Moon, Mars etc. So it is all but impossible for every man kind to get the opportunity for observing the space as well as Moon and Mars etc. directly. In our project SpaceAid. we, Team G5, ensures the user’s opportunity to explore and utilize the space’s data according their category.

 


Solution by Team G5


 


We, Team G5, have developed our SpaceAid project in five separate segments as follows to ensure that the billions of data generated from NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA by the scientists and engineers are utilized properly.

a.      KIDS

b.     STUDENTS

c.      GENERAL PEOPLE

d.     TEACHERS

e.      SCIENTIS & ENGINEERS

 

KIDS

In this section we categorize, merge and compile the data of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA, and show the KID specific curious data i.e., images, sound, video and text to make the best use of data entertaining and attracting the kids to space.

 

STUDENTS

In this section we also categorize, merge and compile the data of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA, and show the STUDENT who are the heart of the nation, specific informative and curious data i.e., images, sound, video and text to make the best use of data informing, entertaining and attracting the students to space.

 

GENERAL PEOPLE

In this section we also categorize, merge and compile the data of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA, and show the GENERAL PEOPLE specific alerting, informative and curious data i.e., images, sound, video and text to make the best use of data alerting, informing, entertaining and attracting the general people to space.

 

TEACHERS

In this section we also categorize, merge and compile the data of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA, and show the TEACHERS who lead the nation speeding the knowledge among the students as well as society, specific charming, alerting, informative and curious data i.e., images, sound, video and text to make the best use of data charming, alerting, informing, entertaining and attracting the general people to space.

 

SCIENTIS & ENGINEERS

In this section we also categorize, merge and compile the data of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA, and helps the SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS who lead theGLOBE speeding the knowledge among the human beings as well as society by inventing/generating charming things, alerting, informative and curious data i.e., images, sound, video and text to make the best use of space data to charme, alert, inform, entertain and attract the all categories of mankind to space.

 

 

Every segment mentioned above has also four sub-segments as follows to ensure our SpaceAid project more useful, curious, attractive, informative and more reachable.

1.     Incredible Images

2.     Incredible Sound

3.     Incredible Video

4.     Incredible Text


Incredible Images

Here we retrieve the best, historical and incredible day to day Images of Earth Surface, Moon, Mars, Spaces, Cyclones, fogs etc. from the space station organizations like NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA

 

Incredible Sound

Here we retrieve the best, historical and incredible day to day Sound of Earth Surface, Moon, Mars, Spaces, Cyclones etc. from the space station organizations like NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA

 

Incredible Video

Here we retrieve the best, historical and incredible day to day Video of Earth Surface, Moon, Mars, Spaces, Cyclones, fogs etc. from the space station organizations like NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA

 

Incredible Text

Here we retrieve the essential, informative, best, historical and incredible day to day Text of Earth Surface, Moon, Mars, Spaces, Cyclones, fogs etc. from the space station organizations like NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA

 

Interface for NASA

Here we retrieve and compile NASA’s data as follows-



  •    NSA FOR KIDS
  •    NSA FOR STUDENTS
  •    NSA FOR GENERAL PEOPLE
  •    NSA FOR TEACHERS
  •    NSA FOR SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS


 


Interface for CSA

Here we retrieve and compile NASA’s data as follows-



  • CSA FOR KIDS
  • CSA FOR STUDENTS
  • CSA FOR GENERAL PEOPLE
  • CSA FOR TEACHERS
  • CSA FOR SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS


Interface for CNES

Here we retrieve and compile NASA’s data as follows-



  •  CNES FOR KIDS
  •  CNES FOR STUDENTS
  •  CNES FOR GENERAL PEOPLE
  •  CNES FOR TEACHERS
  •  CNES FOR SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS


Interface for JAXA

Here we retrieve and compile NASA’s data as follows-



  •   JAXAA FOR KIDS
  •   JAXA FOR STUDENTS
  •   JAXA FOR GENERAL PEOPLE
  •   JAXA FOR TEACHERS
  •   JAXA FOR SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS



Interface for ESA

Here we retrieve and compile NASA’s data as follows-



  •  ESA FOR KIDS
  •  ESA FOR STUDENTS
  •  ESA FOR GENERAL PEOPLE
  •  ESA FOR TEACHERS
  •  ESA FOR SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS




Main Features of SpaceAid

  • Exploring the knowledge of space with NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA
  • KIDS can meet their curiosity with entertain about space with NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA
  • STUDENTS can meet their query, information and curiosity with entertain about space with NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA
  • GENERAL PEOPLE can meet their several query, global alerting information and curiosity with entertain about space with NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA
  • TEACHERS can enhances their space based knowledge meeting several queries, global alerting information and curiosity with entertain about space with NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA
  • SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS can influence their research and projects about space with NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA
  • Finally, a large number of people of different societies on various categories across the globe will be benefited here with NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA about space and related information. This will be real help for mankind by NASA including CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA
How We Developed This Project

Development Procedures



  • A design of UI with JAVA and XML was planned initially and several different environment including splash screen were selected for final development.
  • Only the NASA permitted 3D resources are used from NASA 3D resource site.
  • Several additional elements of the environment were designed using Adobe Photoshop.
  • The core application is being developed in Android Studio IDE with Google SDK using JAVA and XML.
  • To have better user experience in selecting and changing fragments of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA, there are additionally added slide mode with the tab mode.
  • All the scripts were written just in JAVA programming language and XML


Tools Used


  • IDE: Android Studio
  • SDK: Google SDK
  • UI Developing Language: XML
  • Programming Language: JAVA
  • Graphics Tool: Adobe Photoshop
  • TTS: Text Speech ( http://www.fromtexttospeech.com )
  • Video Making Service: Microsoft Power Point
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We, Team G5, have developed SpaceAid, a mobile app i.e., a digital tool incorporating text, images, sound, or videos using the data of NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA for generating user experience that enables the users from bottom to top level to explore the Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History.


Space agencies like NASA, CSA, CNES, JAXA and ESA are the store house of Space Data i.e, not only space data but also various data related to earth , no one can deny it. A lot of engineers, scientists and more meritorious men/women are contineously working for the globe with the space stations. So it is more reliyable to depend space agencies than others.


  • Firstly, we marked the permitted resources like NASA, CSA, JAXA etc. links from the NASA sites
  • Then we visit them carefully
  • After that we used our searching filters/policy to collect the data related to our chose. In this step, we also collect the APIs. This is one of the important step for us
  • Next, we segmented our collected data in several segments like Data for KIDS, Data for STUDENTS, Data for GENERAL PEOPLE, Data for TEACHERS & Data for SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS
  • After this we started our coding and implemented our idea along with the space agencies provided data.
  • Finally, we makes sure for several times checking of project that it is working.
Data & Resources

Resources used from NASA


 

Resources used from CSA


 

Resources used from CNES


  •  Not yet

 

Resources used from JAXA


 

Resources used from ESA


  • Not yet
Tags
#Inform #KIDS #STUDENTS #TEACHERS #SCIENTISTS #ENGINEERS #GENERAL_PEOPPE #SpaceAid #HISTORY #CYCLONES
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.