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exactly what cindy does the instrument

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only the instrument you know catches

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neutral particles and ionized particles

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one of the big attractions at every agu

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meeting is right here in the exhibit

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hall this is where all this stuff of

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science is on display

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scientific instruments

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exploration equipment of all kinds

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comic books and apparently comic book

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i'm cindy i'm an android space girl

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who's also a dog catcher in my spare

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time i'm also a nasa mascot for the

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cindy

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coupled ion neutral dynamics

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investigation and as a mission of

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opportunity so space dogs are fantastic

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i have two called tech and tech

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and

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space dogs are just like normal dogs

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except for they can lose their tails

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when they have their tails they're calm

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in their lap dogs and they're very

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comfortable to have around as pets

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but when energy biscuits come from the

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sun and the dogs eat them their tails

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pop off and they start chasing them

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around they're very very jumpy and

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energetic

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now my job as a dog catcher is to catch

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and release these dogs and i also study

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their migration patterns and what

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heights they live at in mice region of

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their temperatures and how they move

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around

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there are a lot of people on earth that

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use my space dog data to investigate

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what's going on up in my levels of space

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there's a group at university in texas

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of dallas that is doing this

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one of the talks will be presented here

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at agu by a grad student named angeline

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in the out rifts to provide constraints

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on the lower thermostat

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so the talk i gave used the cindy data

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the ion velocities

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and compared them to the results from a

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model in order to provide boundaries

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on the magnitude of winds lower down in

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the atmosphere

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these winds are hard to measure and we

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don't currently have any satellites

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measuring them at that level so cindy

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studies the ionosphere which is the

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it's on board a satellite that's at the

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lowest 400 kilometers above the earth

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the part of cindy that i use measures

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the movement the temperature and the

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type and amount of the ions that it runs

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across

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so most of the atmosphere

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is neutral it's breathable it's made up

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of molecules and atoms

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and it gets thinner the further you get

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away from the earth

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by the time you get up to the level

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the satellite that we're using xenops is

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at you have less than one percent of the

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atmosphere left

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when it's this thin

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it's very easy for radiation that comes

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from the sun

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to excite the particles and throw off an

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electron and cause an ion to be formed

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and the formation of the ionosphere is

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it protects us from most of the sun's

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radiation it absorbs a lot of the cosmic

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rays the x-rays and most of the

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uv radiation that comes out what made

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you decide to become a scientist

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well my first trip to the planetarium

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really

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i loved the stars and

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the

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so i decided

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it was the most worthwhile and

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interesting thing to study

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i'd always been good at math and

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once i realized that i loved physics

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it was a no-brainer

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to find out more when you don't have a

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physics background can be a little bit

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difficult

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but one way i've used to explain to my

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friends and family is the comic books

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the cindy comic books cindy and space

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and cindy in the electric atmosphere

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they do a really good job of explaining

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in interesting terms and

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basic but relevant terms that do explain

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pretty much everything about what i do

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and about