A group of intrepid Emanuel students have been working hard for the AstroPi competition run by the European Space Agency, together with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They have now submitted their project to AstroPi and are waiting with baited breath for the results to be announced.
Our team aimed to research the magnetic field of the Earth. We thought this would be interesting because we wanted to discover the magnetic shape of the earth as there may be external factors.
Our hypothesis was that the graph would be basically sinusoidal but with some kinks in our data on the sunlit side of the Earth due to the solar wind. We expected to see that the ISS should perform two full orbits, passing over (near) 4 poles, which would give four maxima to the magnetic field.
To read the team’s full report, click the link below.