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What Color is the Ocean? Activity Flyer |
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What's Binary Code? To process and store data, computers use a simple coding system, called binary code (“bi” means two). Like a simple light switch which has only two positions—ON and OFF—computers encode data using only two binary digits—0 and 1, called bits. All letters (see back), digits, and special characters have been encoded with defined sequences of bits. Most modern character-encoding schemes use a binary string of eight bits. This publication appears in: |
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What Color is the Ocean? Activity In this activity, you will use a simple spectrophotometer to test how light at different visible wavelengths (blue, green, red) is transmitted, or absorbed, through four different colored water samples. This is related to the following mission(s): This publication appears in: |
