Astro Pi Mission Space Lab

[Darren O'Sullivan]

Hi

Is anyone here involved in Astro Pi Mission Space Lab this year or in previous years? 

Two groups of my students have had their experiment ideas selected for phase 2 of the competition. I am still waiting to receive the complementary Astro Pi kit from the European Space Agency / Raspberry Pi foundation. 

ESA Astro Pi Get ready for phase 2

Mission Space Lab Astro Pi

[Anne Gilleran]

Hi, I am involved Darren, we haven’t received our Astro Pi either but if you go on ESA website-Education they have an emulator that you can test run your code on.

Anne

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[Joseph Molloy]

I have 2 Sense Hats on Pi 3s but I use the emulator. I am not involved n the project.

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[Darren O'Sullivan]

Thanks for the replies.

 

Both student groups will be using the Pi NoIR camera for their experiment, afaik the trinket sense hat emulator can not be used to test code for the camera. Saying that, I have minimal experience in Raspberry Pi and Python. 

Anne, are your students experiments in the life in space category or life on earth category? Both of my students experiments are in the life on earth category, using the Pi NoIR to investigate plant health. I guess they will be only be using the display on the sense hat to display images or messges. 

 

[Anne Gilleran]

Darren,

Mine is on the life in space – we are attempting to create like a mood ring for the astronauts. Depending on the temperature which is sensed a colour will be displayed. I am hoping it is simple enough.

Anne

 

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[Darren O'Sullivan]

Anne

That is very interesting. I had one entry for the life in space category but it didn't progress. It was to display the time directly below the ISS.

The two which did progress to phase two are:

1. To investigate if there is a relationship between the air quality of a city and the health of plants in that city by using the NoIR camera to measure plant health.

2. To investigate if the NoIR camera can be used to distinguish healthy peatland from damaged peatland. Peatland health is important for climate change as healthy peatland acts as a carbon sink whilst damaged peatland is a net emitter of carbon. 

The first obstacle with this project is that the pi has to be programmed with locations of the Earth's peatlands. So far we have been unable to get the mapping information.

Best of luck to your students Anne. Let me know how you get on.

[Anne Gilleran]

Darren, my sounds very very basic in comparison to yours. Best of luck

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[Darren O'Sullivan]

Anne

In the case of your students it is very achievable to complete the required code successfully. I am concerned that in particular the peatland experiment might be very difficult to code. 

The feedback from ESA / Astro pi re each experiment idea is as follows:

1. Plant health in clean air cities v polluted air cities

Great idea, because we won't know the ground path of the ISS for your experiment beforehand I suggest that you pick a number of target cities for contingency. If you use the Python ephem module you should be able to calculate when you're passing over a city and only then take pictures in order to save disk space.

2. Peatland Health Investigation:

Great idea, because we won't know the ground path of the ISS for your experiment beforehand I suggest that you program in every known peatland site on the Earth for contingency. 

As I am new to pi and python hopefully I will be able to support my students in their Astro Pi endeavours.