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May 5th

Today DL assigned us to study a 'video' of the changing electron numbers in the US over 24 hours and forward a response on our observations. This was my response.

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It appears that the electron count in the earths atmosphere above the northern parts of the US (such as alaska and the canadian border) is much lower and experiences less change. However places along the southern Mexican border and approximately near the equator have extreme changes in the number of electrons and also greater numbers of them at times. I think it is plausible that because the extreme changes occur when the sun is overhead those areas along the equator (about noon to four), it is in fact the path of the sun that creates those drastic jumps in electron number.

May 6th

Today DL showed us more video footage of the sun and cosmic rays. He also introduced us to [|spaceweather.com].

May 7th

Today we began working on a new assignment for the Comsmic Ray project. We are supposed to use the Cosmic Ray e-Lab and find detector coordinates and enter placemarks in Google Maps.

May 8th

Sick

May 9th

Continued looking for high schools with cosmic ray detectors and their geometric data.