2020 Online Salon
A Guide to Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Project Details
- Entrant Name: Colleen Paris
- Membership Type: Student Submission
- Address: Oakville, Ontario Canada
- Client: Faculty Advisor: Jodie Jenkinson
- Copyright: 2020 Colleen Paris
- Medium/software used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects
- Final presentation format: Print, 53” by 30” poster
- Primary Audience: Educated Lay Audience
Project Description
Habitable exoplanets are planets outside our own solar system that have the potential to house liquid water. The conservative catalogue of potentially habitable exoplanets contains twenty-one exoplanets, each with varying features. I created this infographic as a 53” by 30” poster to inform a lay audience on the classification of a habitable exoplanet, and to serve as an educational piece on the many differences between these exoplanets. The main purpose was to depict a visual representation of a data set with multiple variables in a manner that effectively showcases the similarities and differences in the characteristics of the exoplanets, comparing them to each other and to Earth. The infographic contains several different variables of data visualization, including Earth Similarity Index (ESI), stellar classification, year of discovery, distance from Earth, distance from each respective star, mass, radius, and equilibrium temperature.
