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This post was originally written by IreneAnt and edited and posted by Astrostu. This past week the Moon Mappers science co-leads, Stuart and Irene, have been in Houston, TX (USA) attending the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. This is an annual conference where planetary scientists congregate and present their most recent and exciting findings. On Thursday, Stuart and Irene presented their poster based on the Moon Mappers crater counts that citizen scientists have conducted to date. For the past year, [...]
One of the hardest parts of being part of citizen science is trusting that it will work – trusting that the data provided by a great multitude of strangers will have sufficient quality that we can use these contributions to do science. I have spent the past many years of my life saying to other scientists, “Yes, you can trust the data.” I have to admit though, I’m always scared until I have results in my hands that prove the [...]
Last week I attended the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union where 22,000 scientists gathered to talk about hydrology, geology, oceanography, climate change, planetary science, science education, and a boatload more. Pamela Gay and I were helping the very fabulous Connie Walker of Globe at Night to run the sessions on citizen science. I was amazed at the wide variety and scope of citizen science project available out there, and I’d like to share a few of them with [...]
It’s here! A brand new citizen science project! Everyone, welcome Mercury Mappers to our happy family. Technically, it is still in “beta” which means that all the site content isn’t in place, but we are so excited to have the data and tools up and running that we’re going ahead and sharing it anyway. This project lets you get a close-up look at the Solar System’s innermost planet through the “eyes” of spacecraft MESSENGER which has been in orbit since [...]
You never know what will grab a child’s attention and capture their imagination. When I was little, I remember being fascinated by a jar of bread clips in my grandmother’s kitchen. Every time we’d visit her I’d reach up to that high kitchen shelf, grab that jar and dump the clips all over the floor. They were the coolest thing! All different colors… all shiny and plasticky… I’d sort them and count them out—it was awesome! Woo hoo! Ahem… well, [...]
Over the past weekend, CosmoQuest hit 1 million craters marked across all science interfaces, and I wrote a post about some of the basic stats about you, our volunteers. MoonMappers itself is at about 910,000 craters as I write this (the balance being done in the AsteroidMappers task). So with stats now out of the way, where are we with the science? First, what science are we trying to do? This tutorial page goes into a fair bit of detail, [...]
On March 22, 2013 we found out that many NASA EPO programs will be suspended as a direct result of US budgetary sequestration. The full ramifications are still being learned, but we are proactively working to raise money to make sure that CosmoQuest can continue to support its staff and its programs. As we are able, we will also use any monies we raise to contract amazing people whose jobs are negatively impacted by budgetary cuts.
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Total Raised: $3,600 (as of 5/13//2013)
