Solar System Probes Website

Solar system interface
Milky Way
Solar Probe
Pluto
Pluto and Beyond page

Inspiration

The hackathon theme being "Launch" and the team studied Physics (+ Computer Science students), we wanted to make something interactive and aesthetically pleasing!

What it does

Information website showing the planets orbiting the sun, the planets are clickable and take you to a page with information on probes related to that planet. There is also a Gemini chatbot that receives user questions about the space probes.

How we built it

Used HTML, javascript, css and piskel for the images.

Challenges we ran into

Tried to use NASA's Horizon API to relay live location data for current probes but the API is quite specific with names and formats, so it was not working. Issues with Gemini API receiving questions. We have also never made a website before so we were learning everything from scratch as we go!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the planets to orbit (orbital parameters are accurately scaled (logarithmic for distances, sped up periods), we did the maths) and making them clickable to open a new page.