Our lab
This week I began work on a new project studying the radio emissions of Jupiter. Thursday night Parker, a student at CU, and I stayed at the lab and ran a noise test on our radio telescope to determine how much background interference is coming from the city of Boulder that we need to filter out. We sent the data to an associate of Parker’s, and we expect to get a response from him sometime next week.
One of the data sets we took during our noise test
While we were getting the test set up, calibrating the receivers and antennae, I learned how to operate the telescope, so I am planning to use it not only to study Jupiter, but to look for evidence of solar flares as well.
I also worked with the MAVEN operations team to optimize data production rates for the PFP (Particles and Fields Payload) and the RSP (Remote Sensing Payload) during the time that Mars is on the far side of the Sun.
Next week I also plan to start a project analyzing data in search of Martian clouds, in conjunction with the MAVEN science team.
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