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A British Teenager Pointed Out a Major Error in the Data NASA Collects from the ISS
By Signe Dean/ Science Alert/ Science/ Business Insider/ businessinsider.com
"A British school student recently contacted NASA to point out that there was an error in data recorded on the International Space Station (ISS), earning him thanks from the US space agency.
Miles Soloman, a 17-year-old student from Tapton School in Sheffield, was working on the TimPix project, which lets school students in the UK access data recorded by radiation detectors during British astronaut Tim Peake's six-month stay on the ISS.
Amongst other projects, Peake participated in a research program that aims to understand the impact of space radiation on humans. Radiation on the ISS is monitored with USB-shaped Timepix detectors, which are plugged into computers and regularly send data back to Earth.
Soloman and his fellow students were given these Timepix measurements in a giant pile of Excel spreadsheets, allowing them to practice data analysis on real-world scientific information.
When they sorted the data by energy levels, Soloman noticed something odd.
"I went straight to the bottom of the list, and went to the lowest bits of energy there were," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One current affairs program.
"I noticed that where we should have no energy, where there was no radiation, it was actually showing -1. The first thing I thought was 'Well you can't have negative energy,' and then we realised that this was an error."...."
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg looks down on Earth through the windows of the cupola inside the International Space Station (ISS). NASA
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By Signe Dean/ Science Alert/ Science/ Business Insider/ businessinsider.com
"A British school student recently contacted NASA to point out that there was an error in data recorded on the International Space Station (ISS), earning him thanks from the US space agency.
Miles Soloman, a 17-year-old student from Tapton School in Sheffield, was working on the TimPix project, which lets school students in the UK access data recorded by radiation detectors during British astronaut Tim Peake's six-month stay on the ISS.
Amongst other projects, Peake participated in a research program that aims to understand the impact of space radiation on humans. Radiation on the ISS is monitored with USB-shaped Timepix detectors, which are plugged into computers and regularly send data back to Earth.
Soloman and his fellow students were given these Timepix measurements in a giant pile of Excel spreadsheets, allowing them to practice data analysis on real-world scientific information.
When they sorted the data by energy levels, Soloman noticed something odd.
"I went straight to the bottom of the list, and went to the lowest bits of energy there were," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One current affairs program.
"I noticed that where we should have no energy, where there was no radiation, it was actually showing -1. The first thing I thought was 'Well you can't have negative energy,' and then we realised that this was an error."...."
NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg looks down on Earth through the windows of the cupola inside the International Space Station (ISS). NASA
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