Teen Corrects NASA Error
The International Space Station was showing an anomaly.
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Forget space camp, one U.K. teenager found and corrected a data error on the International Space Station in his free time.
According to the BBC, 17-year-old Sheffield student Miles Soloman, taking part in a project with the Institute for Research in Schools, was looking over a spreadsheet of the radiation data recorded on the space station when he noticed something funny. Down at the lowest levels of the readings, a negative amount of radiation was recorded. Since detecting a negative amount of energy isn’t a thing, Soloman knew something was up.
He contacted NASA with his findings, and they said that while his discovery was appreciated, it was already a known issue. However, scientists thought that the anomaly was only occurring once every few years, but Soloman’s information indicated that the discrepancy was occurring multiple times a day.
His discovery might not have been Earth-shattering, but detecting these kinds of anomalies is just one small, but essential, part of keeping us in space.
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