High Schoolers Measure Earth's Magnetism from Space - Eos

The experiment was one of the winning projects of the Astro Pi Challenge, in which hundreds of young scientists analyzed data collected from the International Space Station.

With mathematical models and estimates, coding know-how, and a small computer, three high school students from Portugal succeeded in an experiment to measure Earths magnetic field and pinpoint its po… [+4429 chars]

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