Tucson High Magnet School

• Presenters: Julia Van Valkenburg, Kalyn Scanlan, Negin Nematollahi, Corrie Ash • 124 9th grade students in Conceptual Physics

Methods

• Answer study guide questions about Tucson • Answer study guide questions about La Serena • Pick targets in La Serena • Photograph targets in Tucson

Challenges

• Dealing with false color • Distinguishing objects of similar size • Unfamiliarity with layout of Chilean cities • Counting pixels • Locating the targets using the coordinates • Determining elevation • Dealing with green color as representation of the desert in La Serena

What We Learned

• How to locate objects using coordinates • That looks can be deceiving (false color) • There is more water in La Serena than Tucson • Parts of Chile are desert • The driest desert in the world is in Northern Chile • La Serena is a more dispersed city than Tucson