It’s known that air pollutants can increase the probability of respiratory illnesses, which are straightly related to higher risks of severe COVID-19 disease.
Therefore, to contain the pandemic, it is crucial to spread air pollution awareness everywhere across the globe. Based on NASA data, such as the NASA Earth Observatory Global Maps, we were able to predict which vulnerable groups were most in need of scientific information resources.
It is important to notice that What do you breathe? focus on creating a more accessible mechanism between people and environmental education by offering cheap and safe experiments. Our goal is to detect the pollutant by producing qualitative data, in no way quantitative.
To inspire the new generations, an especial edition for kids is also available. Claudya, our cloudy character, will lead the child’s whole family into an adventure to find out what is that blurry smoke that is keeping her from staring at the shiny stars.
What do you breathe? also aims at a cheap solution to indoor air solution. Together with the tests, we disponibilize plant’s seeds that have been scientifically confirmed as air purifiers by former NASA researches. Not only do those plants photosynthesize our emitted carbon dioxide into breathing oxygen, but also significantly lower chemical rates, such as benzene, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene and more.
The “Purify the air supply” challenge was certainly the most stimulating of all provided. Thinking about air quality is not only thinking about inhalation, but also water and food supplies and even animal and vegetal life on Earth. Air pollution is a matter that affects every single one of us.
That is why we wanted to develop a product that could aware population groups affected by lack of information about the importance of the air we breathe and it’s relation to the coronavirus spread.
In this project the data provided by NASA was during all our creation steps. Firstly, reading NASA’s Climate Kids articles rose our will to develop an educational product for all ages. Then, as we decided to focus on social disadvantaged groups, NASA’s Earth Observatory helped us find out the optimized community to target, depending on the pollution level. Those Global Maps and other Earth data were also used on our website and our guidebooks to teach the users about air pollution sources. Finally, a research was made on interior plants for indoor air purification based on another NASA article. As a solution to the contamination monitored by the tests, our kit also includes some of these plant’s seeds, so the user could start purifying their home’s air.
Our team used the software ANSYS Discovery Live for a prior project that showed off inefficient in the simulations. For the final project we used different tools, such as Trello for team scheduling and management, Adobe Photoshop for images edition, as well as website mockup and DaVinciResolve for video edition.
Besides the limited term to develop the project, our team had to face an entire change of plans when our studies revealed our first idea as ineffective to solve the problem. However, our group overcame the difficulties and brought up an even better solution. It was really fulfilling to find out new individual and group competencies. After the Space Apps our team became more connected and prepared to face new challenges.
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Hi, I’m Tainá and I’m from The Myths Brazil team.
Air pollutants, respiratory illnesses and higher risk of severe Coronavirus disease are related.
However, vulnerable people in remote areas don’t have access to scientific information about air quality. Thus we’ve developed What do you breathe?, a cheap and clever educational kit for air quality detection, based on NASA data.
Inspiring new generations, an especial edition for kids is also available.
Our aim is to empower people to make life-changing decisions in what air they breathe.
Earth Observatory Aerosol Optical Depth
Before and After: World Nitrogen Dioxide Levels, 2005-2016 | Air Quality
Interior Landscape Plants for Indoor Air Pollution Abatement: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19930073077 2020-05-31T09:16:44+00:00Z