A newly identified near-Earth asteroid, "Impactor-2025," poses a potential threat to Earth, but do we have the tools to enable the public and decision makers to understand and mitigate its risks? NASA datasets include information about known asteroids and the United States Geological Survey provides critical information that could enable modeling the effects of asteroid impacts, but these data need to be integrated to enable effective visualization and decision making. Your challenge is to develop an interactive visualization and simulation tool that uses real data to help users model asteroid impact scenarios, predict consequences, and evaluate potential mitigation strategies.
The challenge is to create an interactive visualization and simulation tool that helps both the public and decision-makers understand the risks of a potential asteroid impact.
Our main goal is to develop a software application that integrates and uses real scientific data to model what would happen if an asteroid hit the Earth. The tool should make complex data easy to understand visually.
Backend developer:- To process data and perform calculation.
Frontend developer:- for visualization and modelling, simulation.
JPL Sentry: Earth Impact Monitoring: This is the main source. It has asteroids with a non-zero probability of hitting Earth. https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/
JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB): Provides detailed data (size, velocity, orbit) for any known asteroid. We’ll need its API.
[<https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html>](<https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html>)
NASA APIs:
[<https://api.nasa.gov/>](<https://api.nasa.gov/>)