GAVRT Solar Patrol

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The GAVRT Solar Patrol

program is a heliophysics program

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aimed at Citizen Scientists

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and K through 12 students, both locally,

nationally and throughout the world.

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The goal of GAVRT Solar Patrol

is to monitor active regions

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on the Sun in order to understand

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how they're connected to explosive events

that we categorize under space weather.

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Participants can remote in and

actually control the telescope themselves.

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So a common observing mode

with the GAVRT Solar Patrol is

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that we’ll have classrooms

actually operate the telescope themselves,

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collect some data and then generate maps

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of what the sun looks like at radio

frequencies.

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They're gaining a really unique

experience that I think

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is really special to the GAVRT program,

and that's the ability to walk

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through the scientific process

from the very beginning - from the steps

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of collecting the data themselves,

all the way to reducing that data

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and interpreting scientific results

from their studies.

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I get excited anytime I get to

operate a radio telescope

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and so I really enjoy it when other people

get to have that same opportunity

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and that same learning process.