Welcome to the world of high energy Cosmic Rays!

 

Cosmic Rays are just charged particles like protons coming to the Earth from space !

 Click here to watch a movie about the Hi - Res Cosmic Ray observatory . The highest energy particles ever were observed here.

  

Click here to learn about the discovery & science of cosmic rays. This is the best place to start.

 Click here to see a 6-minute introductory movie about WALTA 

Learn about types of cosmic ray detectors by going to the

Topic Menu.

 

WALTA: Washington Area Large-Scale Time-Coincidence Array

a school-based cosmic ray detector network 

 

Click here for a menu of the animations on this cd.

 

Menu of Activities and Questions for students

look for this icon throughout the site for links to questions for students

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A cosmic ray discovery timeline

  A cosmic ray GLOSSARY

 Credits, revision history, and more information on using the CD

cosmic ray www links