{"id":201146,"date":"2024-12-10T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/engineers-transform-smartphones-into-instruments-for-studying-space"},"modified":"2024-12-10T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T15:05:21","slug":"engineers-transform-smartphones-into-instruments-for-studying-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/engineers-transform-smartphones-into-instruments-for-studying-space","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Transform Smartphones into Instruments for Studying Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-transform-smartphones-into-instruments-for-studying-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That ordinary smartphone in your pocket could be a powerful tool for investigating outer space. In a new study, researchers at Google and CU Boulder have transformed millions of Android phones across the globe into a fleet of nimble scientific instruments\u2014generating one of the most detailed maps to date of the uppermost layer of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s findings, published Nov. 13 in the journal Nature, might help to improve the accuracy of GPS technology worldwide several-fold. The research was led by Brian Williams of Google Research and included Jade Morton, professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at CU Boulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese phones can literally fit in your palm,\u201d Morton said. \u201cBut through crowdsourcing, we can use them to change the way we understand the space environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That ordinary smartphone in your pocket could be a powerful tool for investigating outer space. In a new study, researchers at Google and CU Boulder have transformed millions of Android phones across the globe into a fleet of nimble scientific instruments\u2014generating one of the most detailed maps to date of the uppermost layer of Earth\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}