NASA-Space-Apps-Challenge-2024
Orrery Challenge
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We developed a website that displays an orrery, which can be used as an educational tool for beginners to astronomy, especially students and kids. The orrery shows the accurate motion of the planets through the solar system described by Kepler’s Laws, which exposes learners to some intuition about the scale of celestial bodies in our solar system and their varying velocities around the sun. Users can interact with the orrery: by zooming in and out, rotating, and selecting objects to learn basic information and fun facts. The goal is to inspire an interest in astronomy amongst those engaging in it for the first time.
Our orrery website is an educational tool for students and kids. It shows the accurate motion of the planets through the solar system and their positions relative to each other as time passes. When an object of interest is clicked, you can see additional information about that body. The goal is to give amateur astronomers some intuition of the scale of celestial bodies in our solar system and their motion around the sun.
Kepler's laws were used to determine the orbital paths of bodies including planets, near Earth objects, and potentially hazardous asteroids.
The orrery website was designed using Figma and built using React.JS, Node.JS, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 3D assets were retrieved online and adjusted accordingly in blender. Data was retrieved from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and used as JSON files.
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