Topic of the Week: Citizen Science - MyMoon
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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: CITIZEN SCIENCE
Few things are quite as awesome as citizen science.
That's where the scientists in x or y field---often space---give the power to the people to collect a bunch of data and complete a huge task.
Like, mapping the moon!
Tomorrow night we're having a webcast with Pamela Gay, whose own Cosmoquest has their own lunar citizen science project rolling: MoonMappers!
Stop by tomorrow at 7pm CST to chat her up about all things moon mapping and people power :) And follow CosmoQuest's great Google+ page for weekly science hangouts!
And until then---what are your favorite citizen science projects that you've heard of? And what's one you'd like to see with the Moon?
Tuesday Jun-19-2012
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MOON'S LUMPY GRAVITY EXPLAINED
In a recent article published on space.com, researchers discuss what causes the lumpy gravity of the Moon. As many people may know, the Moon has an odd gravity field. For example, one perturbation ...
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TITAN: WHERE METHANE FLOWS LIKE WATER!
Our Moon isn’t the only interesting natural satellite in our solar system. It turns out that there are a large number of fascinating ...Read More Comments [2]
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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT THE MOON?
The Moon ain't what it used to be. People gush about asteroids, Mars, Jovian moons, exoplanets...but it feels like if you bring up the Moon, you mostly just get either a blank or a 'meh'. When ...
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ASTRONOMY DAY AND STARGAZING WITH THE MOON
Today is Astronomy Day, and one of the best ways to celebrate is by going out and doing some stargazing. And one of the best ways to get started with stargazing is to use the Moon as a guide and ...
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TOPIC OF THE WEEK: LIFE IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
The mission of the Kepler Project is to discover habitable planets orbiting other stars. However, many of these planets are light years away and unreachable by humans with our current technology. So ...
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Abhimat G.
Friday Jun-29-2012
My favorite citizen science project is probably the Galaxy Zoo project (http://www.galaxyzoo.org/). It lets anyone classify galaxies and help current research in galaxy morphology and in galaxy evolution throughout the history of the universe. SETI@Home is also pretty interesting, although that really just uses your computer to do the thinking, rather than your brain.
COMMUNITY COMMENTS:
ian c.
Wednesday Jun-27-2012
Ian C
one of the members of the Leicester astronomical society is runing a progect to get a really good light curve for Beta Lyrae,and if any of you would like a crack at some variable star observing Email me and i will give you the details, as for the moon i would like to see a large scale TLP project using the images that exist to try and understand what is real and what is just wishful thinking on our part and i will confess i belive i have seen one,