SunRISE Ground Radio Lab mission
From left, Sophia Uppal and Liana Zhou, both students at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, look over the directions for assembling the SunRISE Ground Radio Lab kit at the M-Air outdoor lab on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday afternoon, May 17, 2023.
SunRISE Ground Radio Lab (GRL) is a science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) radio science campaign, sponsored by NASA, in which high schools across the United States are participating in collaboration with the University of Michigan College of Engineering and NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission. Building upon the Radio JOVE Project, the SunRISE GRL engages citizen science using a multi-frequency radio telescope to observe radio emissions from Jupiter, the Sun, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Earth. The SunRISE mission is due to launch in 2024.
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, a research faculty member in climate and space sciences and engineering (CLaSP), and his team were working directly with David Greene and the Skyline students to go through the entire assembly process of for the SunRISE GRL kit, which the UM students have designed and extensively tested. The antenna kits will be sent to various high schools from Marquette, Michigan down to Puerto Rico. The assembly was recorded and will be made available along with self-paced radio science modules to participating high schools. The reason behind this was the hope that high school students around the country would find the kit assembly doable by seeing their fellow students from Skyline in the video instructions.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
SunRISE Ground Radio Lab mission
From left, Sophia Uppal and Liana Zhou, both students at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor, look over the directions for assembling the SunRISE Ground Radio Lab kit at the M-Air outdoor lab on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday afternoon, May 17, 2023.
SunRISE Ground Radio Lab (GRL) is a science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) radio science campaign, sponsored by NASA, in which high schools across the United States are participating in collaboration with the University of Michigan College of Engineering and NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) mission. Building upon the Radio JOVE Project, the SunRISE GRL engages citizen science using a multi-frequency radio telescope to observe radio emissions from Jupiter, the Sun, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Earth. The SunRISE mission is due to launch in 2024.
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, a research faculty member in climate and space sciences and engineering (CLaSP), and his team were working directly with David Greene and the Skyline students to go through the entire assembly process of for the SunRISE GRL kit, which the UM students have designed and extensively tested. The antenna kits will be sent to various high schools from Marquette, Michigan down to Puerto Rico. The assembly was recorded and will be made available along with self-paced radio science modules to participating high schools. The reason behind this was the hope that high school students around the country would find the kit assembly doable by seeing their fellow students from Skyline in the video instructions.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing