Day 10

Today we went to another interns lab during our morning meeting. After the morning meeting me and my lab partner went back to our lab and began working on our 2nd trial for dry sieving with sand. After we did our sieving we came back to our lab and began calculating the percentages needed in our chart (below).

After we completed this trial and did all of our calculations we went to a seminar. In this seminar we learned about a early warning system for space weather storms. Professor Rodger Dube talked in this seminar. When talking about these storms Professor Dube brought up the history of the first ever space storm in September 1859. This storm was discovered by a British Solar Astronomer, Richard Carrington. Mr. Carrington witnessed on September 1st, 1859 at 11:18am, a enormous group of sunspots, followed by a

blinding white light. The next day around 4:30 am the earths atmosphere erupted in bright red and green colors. When you can see the northern lights you know that a sun storm took place. These sun storms can cause major power outages, like the one on New Years Eve of 1999. A sun storm looks like this on the sun. 

After the seminar me and my lab partner came back to my lab room and calculated the percentages for the first trial we did in the morning. In the afternoon we worked on our presentations for the last day and also our outline that is due the 29th.