Hi! So I need some major help. I am an Art Education major in my last year and I

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Hi! So I need some major help. I am an Art Education major in my last year and I am taking my last general ed class astronomy 101 and he wants us to write a research proposal paper. I have no idea how to do this nor did he tell us how. I take this class online so its really hard to even get ahold of him to ask him for help. So my hope is that someone here will have such a kindness in their heart that they will help a hopful future art teacher out. I will never have to write this in my carrer and its reallt frustrating that I have to go through so much stress for something that doesnt apply to my field. So any please help if you can and thank you so much if you do. If you help me and if your ever in Madison West Virgnia you have a friend.

In this project, you will write a formal paper (written at a college level, double spaced, your name/date/title on the first page), which will be a research proposal to NASA, proposing a new unmanned space probe to be sent to investigate some object in our solar system. The purpose of science is to learn new things about the universe, so your probe must be designed to solve mysteries, make discoveries, answer questions, gain information, and learn about some object in our solar system. Professional scientists are constantly writing proposals, which are reviewed by panels of other scientists who select the very best to receive things like funding and telescope time.

Your mission must be a new idea. I do not want a report about an existing mission that NASA has launched or is working on. I want you to use your creativity and your knowledge of astronomy to come up with your own unique idea for a mission. Of course NASA is working on a lot of missions, for example a mission to Jupiter. This doesn't mean that you can't propose a mission to Jupiter. It means that you can’t propose a mission to Jupiter that is identical to the one that you can find on NASA's web pages. You have to invent your own space craft, deciding how it will get there and what instruments it will carry. Your goal in this paper is to convince NASA that this is a very important mission and will answer lots of important questions, so they should spend the money necessary to build and fly your mission.

This paper must answer the following questions:

1. Where will this probe go? You may send it to any place in our solar system. Your proposal should contain a detailed and thorough introduction to this object and what we currently know about it.

2. What other missions (if any) have been sent to this location? Discuss the missions that have been sent to this target in the past and report their principal findings.

3. Will this probe be a lander, an orbiter, or a flyby mission? If it is a lander, will it be a rover? How long will this mission last?

4. What instruments will this probe carry? Explain the purpose of each instrument, and why the data it will return is important and useful. (Examples of instruments: The Voyager probes carried visible light cameras. The Magellan probe to Venus carried radar so it could map Venus' surface under the thick clouds. The Galileo probe to Jupiter carried devices to detect magnetic fields. The Viking landers on Mars carried mini-biology labs in order to look for bacterial life.)

5. What scientific question(s) will this probe answer? Explain the unsolved mystery or mysteries that your mission will be designed to address. Your proposal should contain a detailed and thorough introduction to these unsolved mysteries. State your questions explicitly, using a question mark at the end of each question. Please be specific, and be sure to explain exactly how the instruments carried by the probe will allow it to answer these questions.

6. Why are these scientific mysteries important? Make a persuasive case for why your mission would be a worthwhile use of NASA’s resources. Remember: The goal of any scientific investigation is to gain new knowledge about our universe.

It's very important that before writing your proposal, you do careful research about where you're sending this probe. Read through any information in the text, so you have a clear understanding of what challenges your mission will face. Then, hit the library. At the end of your paper, you must include a list of references in the APA style, including your text and at least three other academic sources. You must list all the resources that you used in writing your proposal. All sources listed must be appropriate for a formal academic paper written for a University level science course. If you have any questions about whether your sources are appropriate, please contact me and I will be happy to discuss them. At each point in your paper where you summarize or paraphrase information that you got from a specific source, you must make an in-text citation in the APA style. Whenever a sentence presents facts which are not common knowledge, this sentence should end with an in-text citation of a source for these facts. (If you are not sure what this means or are unfamiliar with the APA style, please consult: http://www.bibme.org/apa)


Can I use Wikipedia as a source for this project? Yes! Most Wikipedia pages about astronomy are very good, so in this course it is acceptable to use Wikipedia pages as sources in your list of references. You can almost always tell the good Wikipedia articles from the bad ones, because the good ones have lots of references to serious scientific sources. In the Wikipedia pages about astronomy, you'll see lots of references indicated as little numbers in brackets (like this [4]) , and if you click on them, it will show you the source being cited. These references tell you that you're probably looking at solid information.

An important grading criterion for this project is whether you have proposed a probe that is realistic and feasible. Your probe should be possible with current technology and typical NASA funding levels for unmanned missions. If you propose a mission which would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, or is far beyond the reach of current technology, this will have a significant impact on your grade for this project. The more detailed your proposal is, the better!

This is a formal university-level paper, so it should begin with your name, the date, and the title of your proposal. Spelling and grammar count, so proofread your work carefully. When writing, please use the first person plural: “We propose that…” Please do not use the first person singular: "I propose that..." This style makes the writing less personal and more objective, which is an important goal of all science writing.

Explanation / Answer

So, i would like to write the main part of this paper, i.e whole idea of research, instruments and findings. You can format it accordingly and then mark a few references.

(1) Our probe will consist of a laser system and three mirrors and an antenna for sending signals back on earth.

That will be a design of Michelson interferrometer, in free space. The mirrors will be placed in such a way that the laser light moves in an L shaped trahectory. Let us make our interferrometer free from all disturbances and place these mirrors very far apart, i.e. Nearly 4000 km from each other. Let them place near the international space station so that they can be approachable. So this small system containing mirrors, a monochromatic laser and antenna will become a space LIGO , an experimental space gravitational wave detector.

(2) such missions have never been sent to space, but they are implemented in various location on earth, where they suffer problems like disturbation due to human activity and space limitation. Only a few KM long ligo is present on earth. And to find the signals of longer wavelength we must have a long interferromter that we are proposing. As space is free from disturbances and also limitless, we can make it longer.

(3) This must be an orbiter, and its location and orientation must always be know for signal processing on earth.

(4) The laser light will go back and forth in a michelson interferrometer. As the gravitational waves approach the system, the whole space will become smaller and longer due to wave like contarction and rarefaction in space periodicaly, so the lasers will be out of phase due to parh dufferences so produced. Such signals can be recorded by our antenna and sent to earth for processing.

(5) this will be helpful in general theory of relativity in case of longer wavelength gravitational waves. As of now, due to smaller length of detectors, only small wavelengths were recorded. We can go towards, longer wavelength and small frequency regime by this.

(6) It will be pretty much important to the general relativity and structure of the spacetime in large scale universe.

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