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Mary Ethel Plotner
Mountain Elementary

Experiment Overview
Determine radiation levels through the Earth's atmosphere during a sounding rocket flight.

Experiment Description
The student team will have a radiation detector that will measure the radiation on the ground at the beginning of the flight. This sensor will measure radiation throughout the flight. When the rocket lands the sensor will be retrieved and data will be recovered and compared to  the radiation data levels.

Hypothesis
Radiation on the Earth will be lower than readiation in space.

If the solar activity from the sun is high the farther out of earth's atmosphere there should be a higher rate of radiation.

Analysis
In progress...