Week+of+Monday+May+5th

=Monday, May 5th, 2008= Today we worked on questions that DL sent us.

Question one, was to spend time looking at the Google Earth of TEC, or Total Electron Count, and look at the color chart figuring out what the image is telling us about TEC in our atmosphere.
1. The TEC or Total Electron Count ranges from a high of 20, all the way down to 1 or even 0, and it is only 20 in the lower half of the USA. And the yellow, greenish color could be a possible reflection of the sun. ===And the second question had to do with predicting any change in any of the rate of cosmic ray arrival--given that the number of electrons in the atmosphere above is fluctuating in the way you are now (in Google Earth) able to see?=== 2. The time of day determines the rate of electrons. At 4, there is the most electrons, because the sun is right over head, and at midnight, there is the least electrons because the sun is on the other side of the earth. =Tuesday, May 6th, 2008= Sick =Wednesday, May 7th, 2008= Sick =Thursday, May 8th, 2008= I have to talk to DL about what I need to do in this class now because I have been missing so many days. So instead, I am going to fix all of my links today, making sure all of them work and so on. =Friday, May 9th, 2008= Today I started working on the task at hand. DL talked to us about our final as well. We are working on separate detectors right now and putting them on a common map. To see this, click here.