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Geomagnetic Events Observation Network by Students (GEONS): Carson High School

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Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS)

The THEMIS Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) team has established ten ground-based magnetometer stations each located across the United States and Canada, including WNCC's Jack C. Davis Observatory. High school students and teachers are helping collect data for NASA's THEMIS mission to study space storms. The network of these teachers, students, and magnetometers together with other students who participate using the web is called the Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS). Current Carson City Schools involved are Carson High School and Carson Middle School

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Carson City, NV: 24 Hour Magnetic Field Plots
click on the images below for real-time displays


Spectrograph	XYZ-Plot	HDB-Plot
Waves in the Earth's magnetic field have a frequency that is given on the y-axis. The color represents the amount of power in the waves: Red indicates a lot of power and interesting space weather. However, it can also indicate cars passing by the school or other moving metal nearby the magnetometer. Blue very little power. *Green-yellow is solid background noise in the magnetometer.	Time is on the x-axis in Universal Time. The y-axis measures the magnetic field (nanotesla). There are three panels representing the Earth's magnetic field: 1) 1st pannel X-direction: Centered on the North-South Magnetic Line 2) 2nd pannel Y-direction: is centered perpendicular to X which is East-West 3) 3rd pannel Z-direction: is centered on perpendicular to earths surface, Up-Down Earth's magnetic field strength is largest in the Z panel, this means that Earth's magnetic field in the U.S. is mostly downward. The next largest magnetic field strength is in the X panel, indicating that Earth's magnetic field in the U.S. points strongly northward towards Earth's magnetic pole.	Time is on the x-axis in Universal Time. These are three panels representing Earth's magnetic field: 1) 1st panel shows the magnetic field strength in units of nanotesla in the H-direction: the direction horizontal to Earth's surface like the way in which a typical compass points 2) 2nd panel shows the angle (D) from the X-direction (close to magnetic north) where the magnetic field is pointing 3) 3rd panel shows the total magnetic field strength at this location. Each HDB plot represents magnetic field data observed at the Jack C. Davis observatory. Because the angle is so small in the D panel, this means that the horizontal directional changes in Earth's magnetic field due to space weather or electrical currents nearby are very small compared with Earth's total magnetic field.

Spectrograph

XYZ-Plot

HDB-Plot

Waves in the Earth's magnetic field have a frequency that is given on the y-axis.

The color represents the amount of power in the waves:
Red indicates a lot of power and interesting space weather. However, it can also indicate cars passing by the school or other moving metal nearby the magnetometer.
Blue very little power.
*Green-yellow is solid background noise in the magnetometer.

Time is on the x-axis in Universal Time. The y-axis measures the magnetic field (nanotesla). There are three panels representing the Earth's magnetic field:
1) 1st pannel X-direction: Centered on the North-South Magnetic Line
2) 2nd pannel Y-direction: is centered perpendicular to X which is East-West
3) 3rd pannel Z-direction: is centered on perpendicular to earths surface, Up-Down
Earth's magnetic field strength is largest in the Z panel, this means that Earth's magnetic field in the U.S. is mostly downward. The next largest magnetic field strength is in the X panel, indicating that Earth's magnetic field in the U.S. points strongly northward towards Earth's magnetic pole.

Time is on the x-axis in Universal Time. These are three panels representing Earth's magnetic field:
1) 1st panel shows the magnetic field strength in units of nanotesla in the H-direction: the direction horizontal to Earth's surface like the way in which a typical compass points
2) 2nd panel shows the angle (D) from the X-direction (close to magnetic north) where the magnetic field is pointing
3) 3rd panel shows the total magnetic field strength at this location.
Each HDB plot represents magnetic field data observed at the Jack C. Davis observatory. Because the angle is so small in the D panel, this means that the horizontal directional changes in Earth's magnetic field due to space weather or electrical currents nearby are very small compared with Earth's total magnetic field.

GEONS Archive Data

Carson City: 30-Minute Plots

Earth's Magnetic Field Calculator

Magnetometer ASCII Data

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