Four Types of Scientific Research Benefiting from Citizen Science Enhancements to NASA’s Astronaut Photography of Earth Database
This is a guest post from Amy Jagge, Image Data Scientist, and part of our Johnson Space Center (JSC) Image Detective Science Team Over 2 million photographs acquired from astronauts on board the International Space Station are curated by the Earth Science and Remote...
Carnival of Space #540
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me, Susie Murph, over at Universe Today. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #540. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an...
CQ Science – Post 6: Simple to Complex
In previous posts we’ve discussed how the very smallest craters have “simple” shapes, and that the somewhat larger craters have “complex” shapes. You may have been wondering why that is, and what we mean by “larger” anyway? How large is large? Well, that turns out to...
Carnival of Space #539
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at NextBigFuture. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #539. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to...

What’s Up December 2017
Here’s your latest issue of What’s Up Tonight? Interesting Astronomy Objects this month! #KtSeery #WhatsUpTonight #Supermoonman More information on the Winter Solstice coming soon!
Carnival of Space #537
Welcome to the 537th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers and bloggers, who submit their best work each week for your benefit. So now, on to this week's stories! First up, the Urban Astronomer podcast this week features...
Carnival of Space #536
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at NextBigFuture. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #536. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to...
CQ Science – Post 5: Crater Confusion
Here at CosmoQuest we spend a lot of time looking at craters. It is a job that only people can do – not computers (yet, anyway). Scientists have been trying to write programs that will effectively identify and count craters, but they have met with only limited...
Carnival of Space #535
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at The Venus Transit. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #535. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an...
Now You Can Make a Contribution to Over 2 Million Astronaut Photos of the Earth taken from Space
This is a guest post from Amy Jagge, Image Data Scientist, and part of our Johnson Space Center (JSC) Image Detective Science Team Astronaut photographs of Earth taken from space give us an entirely new perspective of our planet. Now with CosmoQuest’s new Image...