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For thousands of years, navigators have looked to the sky for direction. Today, celestial navigation has simply switched from using natural objects to human-created satellites. A constellation of satellites, called the Global Positioning System, and hand-held receivers allow for very accurate navigation. In this lesson, students investigate the fundamental concepts of GPS technology - trilateration and using the speed of light to calculate distances.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)