Year 12 find out more about the Earth’s plasmapause!

We are so excited to begin this year’s ORBYTS project with UCL. ORBYTS stands for Original Research By Young Twinkle Students and this year our project is led by astrophysicists Jasmine and Andy from UCL’s Mullard Space Centre. We will be working alongside other year 12 students from Ark Putney, Ricards Lodge and Rutlish School in the sessions in the STEAM space at Wimbledon High. In our project we will be looking at the erosion of the Earth’s plasmapause during magnetic storms, using data from Van Allen probes. We will be using Python as a tool to help us do our analysis and we will be presenting our findings at UCL at the end of the project. More information about ORBYTS can be found here.