Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History
Xaman Ek's Voyage
Summary
Space trash is a high-impact issue that has been put aside for several years. Xaman Ek's Voyage is an immersive experience developed for students and kids with 2 goals: create awareness around the importance of space trash, and inspire future generations on space careers to become change agents. This immersive experience reviewed the concept of space trash, its origin and it's effects.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We developed and interactive and immersive exprience for kids and students to learn more and become aware about space trash /junk.
This topic is really important because it's a topic that is commonly left aside, but has a great impact on our lives.
This experience shows the concept of space junk and highlights the importance of it. With this project we hoped to achieve awareness about this topic, as same as we hoped to get students and kids interested on space careers.
How We Developed This Project
Our approach was to direct it in a pleasant, interactive and fun way to boys and girls so that this component of the problem that we currently suffer, which is pollution, would draw their attention. Without removing the emotion of any topic related to space.
Since we use AR, we had some difficulty thinking about that interaction and how to keep making it informative enough.
Our approach was to direct it in a pleasant, interactive and fun way to boys and girls so that this component of the problem that we currently suffer, which is pollution, would draw their attention. Without removing the emotion of any topic related to space. We use unity to develop an AR App that tells a short and animated story about space junk, we also use a little bit of C language , photoshop, and software to animate.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Well firstly we searched about space junk en NASA’s page, then we understood the real impact of this situation. Then we used the data to complete the infographics, we uploaded information about the concept of this trash, where did it come from and what is NASA doing to help.
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Data & Resources
https://www.nasa.gov/spacetech/NASA_Technology_Designed_to_Turn_Space_Trash_into_Treasure
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/researching-how-best-to-remove-space-junk
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html