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GPS Receivers Explained

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Watch this video about GPS receivers on HowStuffWorks. This is the first segment of NASA Sci Files "The Case of the Technical Knockout" in which the tree house detectives have problems with their GPS device and decide to find out why it failed. See how GPS works in this video from NASA.

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