Moon Zoo Launched—Help Map the Moon :) May 12, 2010
Posted by Nick Azer in : Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter, Moon Zoo, selenography , trackbackAn awesome new citizens science project from Zooniverse has now launched— Moon Zoo!
[vimeo vimeo.com/11583128]
Using images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Moon Zoo project recruits you to help point out significant lunar craters and items of interest from a wide variety of landscapes. Randomly selecting LRO images for each user to analyze, Moon Zoo gives you a chance to pick up some cool lunar geology (and selenography) expertise on the fly while hunting for everything from boulder fields to the remains of spacecraft :)
You can even see on the “My Moon Zoo” page where the images you’ve inspected are located—on a map that, being from hi-def LRO images, gives some spectacular zoom! Crack open Google Earth’s Moon View and get a headstart on your mental lunar atlas :) (Turns out some of the most interesting images from my first batch were from near Aristarchus!)
It’s a lot of fun! Check out that video above for a tutorial, go sign up, and get your lunar nerd on :)
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