El GPS y los sistemas de navegación por radio

Manuel Delgado and Diego González, first-year Baccalaureate students at the Rafael Arozarena High School in La Orotava, Tenerife, presented the second part of their lecture, "From Compass to GPS," as part of the Orotava Foundation's "Exploring Science in Action" project. The students, who were then in their fourth year of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education), participated in the research experience for several months under the guidance of coordinator Jesús Reyes. Their motivation: to satisfy their curiosity and learn based on the question, "How does GPS work?" But they went beyond that, contextualizing the topic by starting with the origins of navigation and the need to position ships on a map, thus tracing a thread that leads from antiquity to the present day. The excellent result was two lectures, or rather, one lecture in two parts: the first on the history of navigation and this second on the operation of satellite positioning systems, such as GPS. Enjoy both and, if you are a 4th year ESO student and live in La Orotava, we encourage you to participate in the next editions of "Exploring Science in Action".