How Drones Are Carrying Out Dangerous Scientific Tasks So People Don’t Have To
Drones have been increasingly contributing to in-the-field science in an impressively diverse number of areas. They’ve been used to track animal movements and count populations, survey landscape human beings can’t reach, spot disease patterns in forests and orchards, collect samples from a whole range of environments, and dozens of other applications. One of the most practical features of drones contributing to science is the ability of drone motors and drone propellers to carry cameras and sensors places human beings can’t go. In essence, drones are now carrying out dangerous scientific tasks so people like scientists don’t have to. Here are a few ways drones are contributing in the field. Flying Into Radiation The failure of and explosion in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 is one of the most infamous human-made disasters in history. Radiation levels in the area surrounding the former power plant are still considered too high for human habitation. That