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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, [...]
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, [...]
Yes, that’s right, one million. (or 1,000,000 or 10^6 if you want to be cool about it) When CosmoQuest went live with Moon Mappers nearly a year ago, a goal was set to map one million craters and we’re almost there! As a fun way to show the progress of the goal, the graphic on the page started off as a “New Moon” phase and has slowly waxed its way across from crescent, to first quarter to waxing gibbous to [...]
The human brain is an amazing machine. It takes in vast amounts of data – sight, sound, smell, and more – crunches through it, and within a fraction of a second makes enough sense of it that we don’t (usually) wind up walking off a cliff or tasting colors. But it evolved haphazardly over millions of years, constructed like a piece of complex software some half-trained programmer has been wedging subroutines in by force. That means the wiring doesn’t always [...]
We are having a broad, open request right now for people, new and established, to come visit the MoonMappers section of our site and help us to find craters. Why? We’re gearing up to present at the NASA Lunar Science Forums conference to be held at NASA Ames research center in California. The conference starts in three weeks, though! In order to present the best science possible, we need to have as many craters identified as possible. Right now, we’re [...]
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)
