Moon Tales
Develop an interactive app for children that uses smart phone and tablet sensory to locate the Moon (any time of the day, even below horizon), which unlocks current lunar data (phase, distance, etc), and then presents the user options for reading a "Moon" related story, view space agency photos and videos, and/or fun facts about the Moon. The goal of this challenge is edutainment and raising awareness about lunar missions around the world.
Our “Moon Tales” app is specifically designed to help children know more about Moon and the other planets. Its UI is very simple such as to easily allow children to navigate the app. The name will be used in various sections to help the child interact in a better way.
The main problem solved by this app is determining the location of moon even when it is below the horizon. Using GPS we determine the present location of the user and then calculate the distance of the user from the moon.
The user can also learn about the history of moon and about various space missions organized by NASA.
We collected information about the moon which were taken as constants in the calculation process.
NASA Mission:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/...
NASA EBooks:
http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html
NASA Blog:
